Emily Ogden
Professor
Specialties
19th C American, American
Office Address/Hours
212 Bryan Hall / TR 12:30-2
Class Schedule
TR 11-12:15, 3:30-4:45
Please see www.emilyogden.net for updated information.
Degrees
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2010
A.B., Harvard University, 2002
A.B., Harvard University, 2002
Books
- Darkness Becomes Bright: On the Brief Life and Immortal Art of Edgar Allan Poe (Viking Books, US, and Picador, UK)
- On Not Knowing: How to Love and Other Essays (University of Chicago Press, US and Peninsula Press, UK)
- Credulity: A Cultural History of US Mesmerism (University of Chicago Press, 2018)
Emily Ogden is an essayist and critic with a specialty in nineteenth-century American literature.
Selected Awards
Guggenheim Fellow, class of 2026
Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant, 2024
Mellon Fellowship at the Society of Fellows in the Humanities, Columbia University, 2010-2013