Biography

Zena Meadowsong received her B.A. in English from Princeton University (1999) and her M.A. and Ph.D. in English from Stanford University (2004, 2006). Her research focuses on the relationship between technological development and narrative innovation in nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction. She has recently published a book, Narrative Machine: The Naturalist, Modernist, and Postmodernist Novel (Routledge, 2019), and her essays have appeared in such venues as Nineteenth-Century Literature, the Oxford Handbook of American Literary Naturalism, the James Joyce Quarterly, The Conradian, and Feminist Modernist Studies. She is currently at work on a second monograph, Writing the “Way Out”: Language, Technology, and Anticolonial Modernism, on the impact of machines in anticolonial and postcolonial fiction. At Rowan, she teaches the British literature surveys, Critical Methods for English Majors, and courses on modernism and modern fiction.