Austin Bailey
(He/Him/His)
Austin Bailey is a PhD candidate in English at the CUNY Grad Center and a Doctoral Lecturer in English at Hunter College (beginning Fall 2024).
Austin researches in nineteenth-century American Literature. His dissertation, “American Becomings: Ontology as Critique in the Nineteenth Century,” examines how C19 U.S. authors turn to ontological thought to effect socio-political critique. Austin’s pedagogy research focuses on alternative assessment practices–specifically, ungrading.
Contact
646-634-9210
Academic Interests
Nineteenth-century American Literature, Philosophy, Affect Theory, Henri Bergson, Abolition, Race, Gender, Intersectionality, Feminism, Discourses of religion and religious experience, Medical Humanities, Theories of Memory and Embodiment, Process Ontology, New Materialism, Rhetoric and Composition, Ungrading, Progressive Pedagogy.
Education
Doctoral student in English at the CUNY Graduate Center; MA in British and American Literature, Hunter College, 2014.
Positions
Publications
“‘Man Himself is a Sign’: Emerson, C. S. Peirce, and the Semiosis of Mind,” ESQ: A
Journal of Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture, vol. 64.4, 2018.
“The World is Full”: Emerson, Pluralism, and “Nominalist and Realist,” The Pluralist, vol.11.2, summer 2016.
