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Michele Navakas

Prof. Dr. Michele Navakas

Carson Fellow

Michele Navakas is an associate professor of English, affiliate of the Institute for the Environment and Sustainability, and affiliate of American Studies at Miami University of Ohio, where she teaches courses in early American literature and environmental humanities. She is the author of Liquid Landscape: Geography and Settlement at the Edge of Early America (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018), which won the 2019 Rembert Patrick Award and the 2019 Stetson Kennedy Award from the Florida Historical Society. At the Rachel Carson Center, she will be completing her second book, Early American Coral: A Literary and Cultural History, a study of the literary and cultural significance of coral from early America to the present day. Her research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (2017–2018), the Library of Congress (2013–2014), the Huntington Library (2012–2013), the John Carter Brown Library, the Newberry Library, the Library Company of Philadelphia, and the McNeil Center for Early American Studies. She earned her PhD in Literature from UC Irvine in 2009.

RCC Research Project: Early American Coral: A Literary and Cultural History


Selected Publications:

  • "Antebellum Coral." American Literature 91, no. 2 (2019): 263–293.
  • "Coral, Labor, Slavery, and Silence in the Archives.” Age of Revolutions, "Revolutionary Material Cultures" Essay Series (April 22, 2019).
  • "Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Florida." FORUM: The Magazine of the Florida Humanities Council 43, no. 3 (Fall 2019): 42–45.
  • Liquid Landscape: Geography and Settlement at the Edge of Early America (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018).
  • "Island Nation: Mapping Florida, Revising America." Early American Studies 11, no. 2 (2013): 243–271.
  • "Liquid Landscape: Possession and Floridian Geography." Early American Literature 47, no. 1 (2012): 89–114.