Position Title
Lecturer
Biography:
Chip Badley (he/him) is a lecturer in the English department at the University of California, Davis. He is at work on a book project concerning aesthetics and queer sexuality in nineteenth-century American literature. A former managing editor of Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies (Duke University Press), he researches and teaches visual culture, gender and sexuality studies, critical race and ethnic studies, cognitive literary studies, and psychoanalysis. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in American Literary History, Early American Literature, the Edith Wharton Review, English Literary History, the Henry James Review, J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, the New England Quarterly, and the Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens. His work has been supported by the American Philosophical Society, the Massachusetts Historical Society, and the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. In 2023, he was a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Postdoctoral Fellow at the Library Company of Philadelphia, and, in 2023-24, the Hench Post-Dissertation Fellow at the American Antiquarian Society.
- Hench Post-Dissertation Fellowship, American Antiquarian Society (2023-24)
- National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Postdoctoral Fellowship, Library Company of Philadelphia (2022-23)
- Andrew Oliver Research Fellowship (for Research in Graphic Materials), Massachusetts Historical Society (2022)
- Lapidus-Omohundro Fellowship for Graduate Research in Early American and Transatlantic Print Culture, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture (2021)
- Library Resident Research Fellowship, American Philosophical Society (2019)
- Stephen Botein Fellowship (for Research in Book History), American Antiquarian Society (2018)
- ENL 3A: Writers' Workshop
- ENL 54: Literature, Health, and Medicine
- “Transformations: Hawthorne’s Queer Photogravure Aesthetic,” forthcoming in The Nathaniel Hawthorne Review
- “Describing Desire: Ekphrasis and Queer Sexuality in Fitz-Greene Halleck’s ‘Red Jacket,’” forthcoming in American Literary History
- “Queer Little Keepsakes: Romantic Photography in the Deephaven Archive,” forthcoming in The New England Quarterly
- “Squandered Art: Edith Wharton and the Erotics of Collecting,” forthcoming in English Literary History 92, no. 4 (Winter 2025)
- “Moby-Dick from Below: Fans, Fictions, and Ship Theory,” forthcoming in the special issue, “Melville’s Queer Afterlives,” in Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies (Fall 2025)
- “Computational Approaches to Manuscript Books: Quaker Correspondence and the History of Its Reconstruction” (with Sydney Coleman, Deena Al-halabieh, Lacey Johnson, Rachael Scarborough King, Jaucqir LaFond, and John Henry Merritt), in the special issue, “The Manuscript Book,” in Eighteenth-Century Life 48, no. 1 (Winter 2024): 236–61
- “Crayon, Looking: Washington Irving and the Queer Sublime,” in J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists 10, no. 1 (2022): 23–48
- “What Maisie Heard: Sound, Sexuality, and the Subjective Camera,” in Henry James Review 43 (2022): 178–207
- “Cognitive Dickens” (with Kay Young), in The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens, ed. Robert L. Patten, John O. Jordan, and Catherine Waters (Oxford University Press, 2018), 613–30