Department of English
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Blythe Waite

MA (Hons) Philosophy and English Literature, University of Edinburgh, 2017, MA English and American Literature, New York University, 2023
Blythe_Lewiswaite@Brown.edu
Research Interests Romanticism, History of Science and Technology, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Media Studies, Poetry and Poetics

Biography

My research explores Romantic literature as it engages with the philosophy of science, particularly questions of how different disciplines justify their objects of knowledge and conceive of the role of language in thinking, and the intersections between speculative philosophy and critical theory as they help comment on the aims of science and technology in our current moment, especially regarding questions of non-human thinking.

At Brown, I have taught Engl 900- The Academic Essay focusing on food ethics and politics and Engl 202- (Un)natural Histories: Observation, Exploration, and Knowledge. I have also been a TA for Freaks of Nature: Emerson, Thoreau, and the Transcendentalists, Medieval Gender, and a survey course on materialism (NYU). 

Prior to graduate study I worked in various writing positions translating new research in health and medicine for general audiences. At NYU I received the Millicent Bell Prize for Best MA Thesis (2023).