Cheryl Alison is a Ph.D. candidate in English at Tufts University, where she also received her M.A. She has worked in higher education for the past eight years, designing and teaching courses from First-Year Writing classes at Tufts to Visual and Critical Studies classes at the SMFA on the intersection of literary and visual art forms. In 2014, Cheryl will defend her dissertation, Creatures of Habit, which combines fine art, drama, and the novel to explore our embeddedness in routine and ritual. The project is concerned, finally, with the relation of habit to political possibility. She has presented her work at regional MLA conferences and The International Society for the Study of Narrative, among others, and has guest lectured at Tufts for classes on both Irish and American literature. Cheryl's research interests include British Modernism; 20th-century American literature, particularly the novel; visual culture; and literary theory.
