Degrees

Book:

• Credulity: A Cultural History of US Mesmerism (University of Chicago Press, 2018)
  Reviews: by Leigh Eric Schmidt at Reading Religion; by Charlie McCrary at Bulletin Book Reviews  (Bulletin for the Study of Religion)

Recent and Upcoming Appearances:

• Interviewed about Credulity: A Cultural History of US Mesmerism on Australia's ABC Radio National: Late Night Live with Philip Adams, April 10, 2018: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/mesmerism/9636656
• New Books in the Society of Fellows: Celebrating Recent Work by David Russell and Emily Ogden, Tuesday, April 3, 2018, 6:15 pm, Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University, New York, NY. Free and open to the public. http://heymancenter.org/events/celebrating-recent-work-by-david-russell-and-emily-ogden/
• Panelist on The Forum (BBC World Service), "Herman Melville: Moby Dick," March 10, 2018, http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csvsfv

Articles:

• "Beyond Radical Enchantment: Mesmerizing Laborers in the Americas." Critical Inquiry 42.4 (Summer 2016): 815-41
• "Edgar Huntly and the Regulation of the Senses." American Literature 85.3 (September 2013): 419-445.
• "Pointing the Finger." J19 1.1 (Spring 2013): 166-72.
• "Mesmer's Demon: Fiction, Falsehood, and the Mechanical Imagination." Early American Literature 47.1 (2012): 143-70.

Selected presentations:

• Panel organizer, “New Ontologies,” C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists Biennial Meeting, March 17-21, 2016, State College, PA.  Paper presented: “Suspended: Fiction's Believers”
• Organizer, "Credulity: Enchantment and Modernity in the Nineteenth-Century U. S.," a conference at the Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University, March 29-30, 2013 (http://heymancenter.org/events/credulity/)
• "Enchanted Criticism: A Roundtable," Rothermere American Institute, Oxford University, February 22, 2013
• "Feathered Souls: Antebellum Mesmerism and the Skeptical Flight of Fancy," Religion in America Seminar, Columbia University Seminars, February 5, 2013
• "With Spirits, All Things Are Possible: Fraud and the Otherworldly," C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists Biennial Conference, Berkeley, CA, April 12-15, 2012
• "Interiority by Subplot: Brown's Edgar Huntly and the Impossible Subject," Society of Early Americanists Biennial Conference, Philadelphia, PA, March 3-5, 2011

Selected awards:

• Cory Family Teaching Award, 2015
• Columbia Society of Fellows Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2010-2013
• Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fellowship, 2006-2010
• American Philosophical Society Resident Research Fellowship, 2009