Devin Griffiths

Assistant Professor of English

Contact Information
E-mail: devin.griffiths@usc.edu
Phone: (213) 740-2813
Office: THH 404

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Biographical Sketch

I grew up in Albuquerque and Houston, and attended college at UT-Austin before heading east to continue my studies at Rutgers and Penn. My research examines the intersection of intellectual history, scientific literature, and the digital humanities, with emphasis on nineteenth-century British literature and science. At the center of my research is the question of how literary form shapes our experience of time and natural systems.  I have essays in Studies in English Literature and English Literary History, and I am currently working on a mongraph that examines how the analogical imagination of historical novels and natural theology established a vocabulary commensurate to modern comparative sciences.

Education

  • B.A. English, University of Texas at Austin, 2002
  • B.S. Molecular Biology, University of Texas at Austin, 2002
  • M.A. Literatures in English, Rutgers University, 2006
  • Ph.D. Literatures in English, Rutgers University, 2010


    • Postdoctoral Training

    • Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania, 2010-2012  

    Publications


    Journal Article
    • Griffiths, D. S. (2011). The Comparative Historicism of A Tale of Two Cities. ELH.
    • Griffiths, D. S. The Intuitions of Analogy in Erasmus Darwin's Poetics. Sel - Studies in English Literature Vol. 51. 2011 2011: 645-665. Print
    • Griffiths, D. S. Red Hot Fiction: Harnessing Maxwell's Demon in Victorian Literature. Endeavour Vol. 34. 2010 2010: 137-138. Print
    • Olsen, M. J., Stephens, D., Griffiths, D. S., Daugherty, P., Georgiou, G., Iverson, B. Function-based Isolation of Novel Enzymes from a Large Library. Nature Biotechnology Vol. 18. 10 2000: 1071. Print



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