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Alec Pollak, Ph.D.

  • Assistant Professor English

Contact

Location

Reilly Hall 334

Areas of Specialization

  • American literature
  • African American literature
  • Women’s, gender, and sexuality studies
  • Queer theory
  • Cultural & media studies
  • 20th-century print culture
  • Intellectual property law
  • Archival methods

Publications

  • Rereading the Black Naturalist Novel: Ann Petrys The Street and the Black Women Writers Series, African American Review, 57.3 (2024): 301322..
  • Introduction: Im Not A Girl Im A Genius in On Strike Against God by Joanna Russ, ed. Alec Pollak (Feminist Press, July 2024), 1-38.
  • On Joanna Russ, The Paris Review, June 2024, .
  • Hansberry Offstage: The Playwrights Lesbian Writings, The Yale Review, Vol. 111, No. 3 (Fall 2023), 61-75. .
  • On Taking Woolf for Granted, Virginia Woolf Miscellany, Vol. 100 (Spring 2023), 3-4. .
  • Toni Morrisons Their Eyes Were Watching God, MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, 47.1 (2022): 107129. .
  • Fantasizing Gender in the J. Peterman Owners Manual, Feminist Theory, 23.3 (2022): 327350. .

Awards & Honors

  • 2023 Hazel Rowley Prize, Biographers International Organization
  • 2023 Katharine Newman Best Essay Award, Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States
  • 2022 Biddy Martin Graduate Prize, LGBT Studies, Cornell University
  • 2021 Rosenthal Advancement of College of Arts and Sciences Women Graduate Research Award, Cornell University
  • 2021 Moses Coit Tyler Essay Prize, Department of Literatures in English, Cornell University
  • 2020 Truman Capote Ph.D. Writers Award, Department of Literatures in English, Cornell University

Grants/Sponsored Research

  • 2024 LGBT Studies Research Fellowship, Yale University
  • 2023 Barker Fellowship, Durham University
  • 2023 Harry Ransom Center Research Fellowship in the Humanities, Harry Ransom Center, University of TexasAustin
  • 2022 Short-Term Research Fellowship, New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
  • 2022 Library Research Grant, Princeton University
  • 2022 Houghton Mifflin Fellowship in Publishing History, Harvard University
  • 2022 Donald C. Gallup Fellowship, Yale University
  • 2022 Spencer Research Library Travel Awards, University of Kansas
  • 2021 Nebraska Cather Collaborative Grant, University of NebraskaLincoln
  • 2021 American Studies Program Graduate Research Grant, Cornell University
  • 2021 Pearl & Otto Delikat Memorial Grant, Jewish Studies, Cornell University
  • 2018 Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Research Fellowship, Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon