Faculty Profile
Claire Seiler
Professor of English (2010)
Contact Information
LOA 2025-26
East College
717-245-1921
Bio
Claire Seiler's research and teaching focus on modern and contemporary US, British, and Irish literatures; poetry and poetics; public health humanities and disability studies; and the history of literacy. She is a 2025-26 Fellow at the National Humanities Center, where she is working on a literary history of polio. Seiler is the author of Midcentury Suspension: Literature and Feeling in the Wake of World War II (Columbia University Press, 2020); of essays published in Contemporary Literature, Contemporary Women's Writing, Modernism/modernity, PMLA, Studies in the Novel, Twentieth-Century Literature, and other journals; and of chapters in Elizabeth Bishop and the Literary Archive (2020), The Routledge Companion to Politics and Literature in English (2023), and other volumes. She is also editor of the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Late Modernism. Seiler's work has been supported by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Mellon Foundation. The latter awarded a major institutional grant, Beyond the New Normal: Disability, Literature, and Reimagining Social Justice, that Seiler and Professor Alyssa DeBlasio (Russian) are co-directing through 2025.
Education
- B.A., Middlebury College, 2002
- M.Phil., Trinity College, Dublin, 2004
- Ph.D., Stanford University, 2010
Awards
- Ganoe Award for Inspirational Teaching, 2019
- Dickinson Award for Distinguished Teaching, 2024