Danielle Skeehan

Biography

Danielle Skeehan is an interdisciplinary scholar of the early global Atlantic world with research and teaching interests in media and material culture studies, print history, settler colonialism, and empire. She is the author of The Fabric of Empire: Material and Literary Cultures of the Global Atlantic (Johns Hopkins University Press 2020). Her work has also appeared in journals including Early American Studies, The Journal of the Early Republic, Eighteenth-Century Theory and Interpretation, and The Appendix, and in a number of edited volumes. Her research has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and she has been a research fellow at the Library Company of Philadelphia, the John Carter Brown Library, the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, the Clements Library, the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the Buffalo Bill Center of the West.

Skeehan teaches classes in English and Comparative American Studies on a range of topics including material culture, foodways, archives, and global Atlantic print and literary cultures.