Michelle Kohler

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Ahearn,Barry Albrecht,Thomas Codr,Dwight Cooley,Peter Desai,Gaurav Desilets, Sean Dinerstein,Joel Elmwood,Victoria Foy,Roslyn Gates, Daniel Gubernatis, Cat Gelley,Ora Hornby, Louise Johnson,T.R. Kaufmann,David Kennedy,Todd Kohler, Michelle Koritz,Amy Kuczynski,Michael Leland,Jacob Letter,Joe Lewis,Nghana Livingston,Judith Mark,Rebecca McBride, Ryan Morris,Paula Naimou, Angela Nair,Supriya O'Connor, Tom Oldman,Elizabeth Pizer,Donald Rothenberg,Molly Smith,Felipe Sponenberg, Ashlie Travis,Molly	Michelle Kohler Assistant Professor Norman Mayer Room 237 Telephone: (504) 865-5160 Fax: (504) 862-8958 Email: mkohler@tulane.edu Michelle Kohler is an Assistant Professor of English, specializing in nineteenth-century American literature. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Oregon in 2006. Her research and teaching interests include American Romanticism, American realism and regionalism, ethnic literature, and nineteenth-century poetry. She is especially interested in figuration and literary form and seeks to understand how writers depict the literary imagination and how they regard their poetic or narrative forms as politically or ethically charged. In her current book project, The Forms of Vision: Sight, Metaphor, and Genre in Nineteenth-Century American Literature, she studies the persistent use of eyesight as a figure for the creation of literary discourse across the nineteenth century in America. In response to the poetic and nationalist visions propounded by early writers and thinkers who claimed to “see” a national literature and destiny on the American landscape, writers like Dickinson, Hawthorne, Douglass, and Jewett contentiously reconfigure such idealized literary vision into new visual figures that pose alternative, but still intimate, relationships between sight and literary language. Her essays on the link between vision and literary form have appeared in American Literary Realism, The Emily Dickinson Journal, and The Chaucer Review.