Kuhn

Degrees
 
Ph.D. Boston University 2014
 
M.A. Boston University 2008
 
B.A. Yale University 2005

 

Selected Publications:
 
 
"Wild only like myself": Thoreau at Home with Plants" in Dispersion: Thoreau and Vegetal Thought. Ed. Branka Arsić. New York: Bloomsbury, 2021.
 
"Chesnutt, Turpentine, and the Political Ecology of White Supremacy," PMLA. 136.1 (Jan. 2021): 39-54.
 
“Dickinson and the Politics of Plant Sensibility,” ELH 85.1 (Spring 2018): 41-70.
 
“Loving the Plant that Saves You,” Common-place. 17.4 (Fall 2017)
 
“Garden Variety: Botany and Multiplicity in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Abolitionism,” American Literature, 87.3 (September 2015), 489-516.

 

Selected Awards/Fellowships:
 
UVA Alumni Board of Visitors Teaching Award, 2023
 
3Cavaliers Grant, University of Virginia, 2021-22
 
Mead Endowment Honored Faculty, University of Virginia, 2018-2019
 
First Book Institute, Center for American Literary Studies at Penn State, 2018
 
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, MIT, 2015-2016
 
San Andreas Fellowship, Huntington Library, 2014
 
ACLS/Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 2013-2014

 

Recent Presentations:
 
"Toxic Object Lessons," Caring Futures conference, Paris, FR
 
"Plants and the Home," Prada Frames symposium, Milan, IT
 
"Paints and Pesticides," C19 Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists Biannual Conference, Pasadena, CA
 
"Cosmopolitan Weeds: Lessons from the 19th Century Garden," Garden Ecologies symposium, Rice University School of Architecture
 
“Approaching Olmsted’s Forests,” FLO@200, Harvard Graduate School of Design, 2022
 
“Paris Green and London Purple: The Cultures of Late 19th Century Biocide,” C19 Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists Biannual Conference, Miami, FL (presented virtually), 2022
 
“Indecorous Plants,” C19 Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists Biannual Conference, Virtual format, 2020
First Name: 
Mary
Position: 
Associate Professor of English
Email: 
marykuhn@virginia.edu
Computing ID: 
marykuhn
Office Address: 

Bryan Hall 409

Photo: 
Specialties: 

19th C American, Environmental Humanities, Literature and Science

Classification: 
Class Schedule: 
T/Th 9:30-10:45 and 11:00-12:15
Office Hours: 
T/Th 2-3:30 and by appointment.