2019-20 Awarded Fellowships

Elizabeth Maddock Dillon is Distinguished Professor of English at Northeastern University and the founding Co-Director of the NULab for Maps, Texts, and Networks which conducts research in the fields of digital humanities and computational social science. She teaches in the fields of early American and Atlantic world literary studies, as well as literature and social justice, theatre studies, gender studies, and digital humanities. She is the author of New World Drama: The Performative Commons in the Atlantic World, 1659-1859 (Duke University Press in 2014) which received the Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research from the American Society of Theatre Research and The Gender of Freedom: Fictions of Liberalism and the Literary Public Sphere (Stanford University Press, 2004) which won the Heyman Prize for Outstanding Publication in the Humanities at Yale University. Together with Michael Drexler, she is co-editor of The Haitian Revolution and the Early U.S.: Histories, Geographies, and Textualities (University of Pennsylvania Press 2016). She is the Co-Director of the Futures of American Studies Institute at Dartmouth College. She is one of the founders of the award-winning Our Marathon project, a crowd-sourced on-line archive of the Boston Marathon bombings and of the Early Caribbean Digital Archive, an open access collection that engages with digital decolonization of the archive. She is currently working on two book projects, one on the Atlantic colonial origins of the novel, and a second titled Geographies of Reproduction: Sex, Gender, and Coloniality.