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Publications
“William H. Prescott’s Imperial Aesthetic,” ESQ: A Journal of Nineteenth-Century American Culture (Vol. 63, No. 4, 2017); 597-639
“Running High on Feeling: Emotional Ecologies in Dreiser, Park, and Miéville,” Studies in American Naturalism (Vol. 8, No.1, Summer 2013); pp. 52-78
Review of Ersatz America: Hidden Traces, Graphic Texts, and the Mending of Democracy, America Writes Its History, 1650–1850: The Formation of a National Narrative, and Relativism, Alternate History, and the Forgetful Reader: Reading Science Fiction and Historiography.
American Literature (Vol. 88 No. 2, 2016): 426-429
"Speaking Violence .” Review of The Prestige of Violence: American Fiction, 1962-2007, by Sally Bachner. Novel: A Forum on Fiction (Vol. 47, No. 3); pp 465-468
Works in Progress
Book Project: “Providential Visions: The Aesthetics of History, Slave Revolution, and Imperial Time in Antebellum America"
“Delano’s Gaze: The Aesthetics of History and the Problem of Slavery” (under review); 33 ms. pages.
Education
2008-2014 Ph.D. in English
Duke University
2003-2007 B.A. in English, Minor in Cinema Studies
New York University
Boston College High School
Graduated: May 2007
Experience
2014-2018: Lecturer of English, Howard University
2010-2013: Graduate Instructor, Duke University
Fellowships, Awards, Institutes
2018 - "The Questions of the Archive," Bavarian American Academy Summer School, Miami, FL.
2017 - "Transcendentalism and Reform," NEH Summer Institute, Concord, MA
2016 - Seshat, NEH Digital Humanities Workshop Felllowship, Howard University
2013 - Ashbel G. Brice Dissertation Fellowship
2012, 2013 - Summer Research Fellowship, Duke University
2013 - Futures of American Studies Research Fellowship
Kevin Modestino, Ph.D.
Born in Braintree, MA
Lives & Works in Washington, DC