This week I was honored to receive an award honoring “Excellence in Research” from the Graduate and Professional Student Congress. According to the email I received, Every year, GPSC takes nominations for individuals who are engaged in outstanding academic research. These nominations are taken from fellow students, staff, and faculty. While many applications were received this year, your research accomplishments and…
Bats! Check out my Dracula presentation
I had the pleasure of presenting at the University of Arkansas’s Graduate Students in English conference in 2021. One of the great things about remote presentation is that you can record your work. Please enjoy my presentation below, titled “‘He Spreads His Cape Like a Bat’: Bram Stoker’s Dracula as Invasive Species in Adaptation.” This…
New Book Publication!
This is particularly exciting for me, because I have been working on co-editing this book with Sheena Stief and Rebecca Day Babcock for almost four years! And it’s now out in the world! If you’re a fan of ecocriticism, the eco-humanities, or just live in an oil rich area, this book will be of great…
Humanities Without Walls Fellow
I’m excited to announce that I’ve been chosen as a Humanities Without Walls 2021 Predoctoral Workshop Fellow. What does that mean? The Humanities Without Walls (HWW) Pre-doctoral Career Diversity Summer Workshop is an intensive three-week interactive experience for PhD students in the humanities that is facilitated and curated by the HWW team based at the…
I’m A.B.D.!
It is exciting to announce that I have completed all coursework and passed all of my candidacy exams and am now ABD! That means I now face the challenge of working on my dissertation, titled “Adapting Animals in Nineteenth-Century Literature, Science, and Philosophy.” One chapter, about adaptations of H.G. Wells’s The Island of Dr. Moreau…
We Made The (Campus) News
This morning, news of last summer’s publication finally hit the streets… at least in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The shameless plug came out in the Arkansas Newswire, an official publication of the university.
See you at SAMLA!
Next week I will be presenting at the South Atlantic MLA conference in Atlanta, Georgia. Even though it’s a small conference, there’s always a huge turn-out of big names in the field of Adaptation Studies, so I’m looking forward to putting a face to the many names I’ve studied over the last few years. I’ll…
Moreau, Animals, and Women
New Article through LFQ I have a new article published at Literature/Film Quarterly, titled “‘Are We Not Men?’ Science, Sympathy, and Women in Adaptations of H.G. Wells’s The Island of Dr. Moreau.“ This article looks at the ways in which the anti-vivisection movement of the 19th century inspired Wells to create a text that plumbed…
Thank you for visiting
About this site Welcome to my website! I’m an Assistant Professor of Nineteenth Century Studies and Teacher Education Coordinator at Mississippi University for Women working on a research project about how our attitudes about science and the environment have changed and stayed the same since the 19th century. On this site, you can find links…
Kristen Figgins, Ph.D. 