Carlisle Yingst

Education: B.A., Indiana University, Bloomington (2015); A.M., Harvard University (2017); Ph.D., Harvard University (2023)

Interests: 18th- and 19th-Century British Literature; theory and history of the novel; book history, bibliography, and media studies; trans and queer literary histories

Recent publications: "The Fire the Next Year" (Digital Defoe, 2021); "Clarissa's Accounts: Ephemeral History and the Eighteenth-Century Memorandum Book" (The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, forthcoming 2023)

Carly Yingst is currently working on a monograph titled Ephemeral History: Documentary Form and the Everyday in the British Novel, 1720-1850, as well as an ongoing project about the books of early gender nonconforming authors. Generally, their research explores how different forms of media interact with broader domains of knowledge, from the writing of history to conceptions of the body. For 2023-2025, they are also a Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography at the Rare Book School.