Michaela Bronstein

Before joining the Stanford English Department, Michaela Bronstein was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and a Visiting Lecturer at MIT, following her graduate work in Yale University's English Department.
Her research focuses on the history of the novel, and although most of her work connects in some way to Anglo-American modernism, she pursues far-flung connections everywhere from 19th-century Russian and British authors to later 20th-century African and African-American literature. Lately, she's also been working on today's television.
Professor Bronstein's interest is in the transhistorical afterlives of literary works: the ways in which literary objects addressed to their own presents later become part of other, more recent histories. She examines the connections between the intimate temporalities of reading----the time it takes to get through a novel----and the broad temporalities of reception across decades.
Michaela Bronstein grew up in Seattle, and lived all over New England for a decade before returning to the West Coast in 2016 to start at Stanford.
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Winter 2022-2023
Literature and the Future
The Single Author Seminar
Autumn 2022-2023
Narrative and Narrative Theory
Serial Storytelling
Spring 2021-2022
Futurities
Autumn 2019-2020
Literature that Changed the World (AFRICAAM 159A, CSRE 159I)
Spring 2018-2019
What was (is?) Modernism?
Winter 2018-2019
Serial Storytelling
Winter 2018-2019
Narrative and Narrative Theory
Winter 2017-2018
Literature and Protest (AFRICAAM 159A, CSRE 159I)
Autumn 2017-2018
Narrative and Narrative Theory
Autumn 2017-2018
Futurities