Degrees
2020, BA English, George Washington University
Bio
Ryan Carroll is a PhD candidate in the Department of English and Comparative Literature. He researches information theory and narrative in 19th-century British, American, and literature. He studies how narrative texts, including sensation fictions, American Romanticist novels, epic poems, slave narratives, and investigative journalism experiment with ways of synthesizing bare facts into narratives, and thus theorize how to navigate an information overloaded world.
Ryan also writes in public outlets on topics including contemporary literature, translation, sitcom family politics, liberation theology, and more.
Publications:
- “Revision and the Politics of Truth-Telling in The Autobiography of Juan Francisco Manzano.” Victorian Studies, forthcoming.
- “The Form of Information and Informational Form in The Woman in White.” Studies in the Novel, forthcoming.
- “The Future Isn’t Now: Impossible Action in Political Scholarship.” Lateral, 13.1, Spring 2024.
- “A Translation the Size of the World.” Public Books, April 2024.
- “‘Looking together united them’: Communal and Multivalent Affects in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse.” Virginia Woolf Miscellany, no. 97, Spring-Summer 2021.
- “The Pilgrim’s Book.” The Jesuits, 2021.
- “Fragments of the Eschaton.” Macrina Magazine, 2021.
- “An Ongoing Revelation: Endings and Poetics of Missingness in the Novels of Virginia Woolf and Gabriel García Márquez.” Portals: A Journal in Comparative Literature, 2020.
Teaching Awards
- 2022 Ruth Rose Richardson Award for First-Year Achievement
- 2023 Earl Hartsell Award for Excellence in Teaching
Awards
- 2024 Eliaison Early Stages Departmental Dissertation Fellowship
- 2023 North American Victorian Studies Association Sally Mitchell Prize for Best Graduate Student Paper
- 2022 Ruth Rose Richardson Award for First-Year Achievement