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 aesthetics in 19th-century British and American literature. He studies how narrative texts, including sensation novels, encyclopedic fictions, epic poems, slave narratives, and undercover journalistic writing, engaged with the phenomenon of information overload, experimenting with information in aesthetic form to produce intense affective responses, like anxiety, thrill, dread, amusement, despair, and exultation.
Ryan also writes in public outlets on topics including contemporary literature, translation, sitcom family politics, liberation theology, and more.
Publications:
- “The Form of Information and Informational Form in The Woman in White.” Studies in the Novel, forthcoming.
- “Informatics.” Victorian Poetry, forthcoming.
- “Revision and the Politics of Truth-Telling in The Autobiography of Juan Francisco Manzano.” Victorian Studies, 66.3, Spring 2024.
- “Is the Information Age a ‘Crisis of Narration’?” Review of Byung-chul Han trans. Daniel Steuer, The Crisis of Narration. NCR, September 2024.
- “The Future Isn’t Now: Impossible Action in Political Scholarship.” Lateral, 13.1, Spring 2024.
- “A Translation the Size of the World.” Review of Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey and Olga Tokarczuk trans. Croft, The Books of Jacob. 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
- 2024-25 Writing Program Instructor Wellness Support Award
- 2024 AI. Curricular Excellence Award
- 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