Maggie Boyd

Maggie is a 6th year PhD Candidate, as well as a Senior Writing Fellow at BU’s Educational Resource Center and in BU’s Fellowships Office. She teaches in both the English Department and Writing Program.

Her dissertation explores contemporary U.S. and Irish narratives of healing, integrating trauma theory, gender theory and queer theory to understand the impact of the PTSD diagnosis (formalized in 1980) on how we respond to trauma. Her research considers the ways in which texts represent and re-imagine healing amid and against an increasing tendency to pathologize experience.

 

 

Publications
Peer Reviewed Articles

“Ordinary Language for Extraordinary Loss.” Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 46, no. 1, 2022, 48-65. doi:10.2979/jmodelite.46.1.04.

Chapters & Contributions

“Reading Well with Others: The Book Club as Critical Method” with Bekah Waalkes. ASAP/J, forthcoming.

“Introduction.” Contemporaries at Post-45: “For Speed and Creed: The Fast and Furious Franchise,” Nov. 2022.

“2 Make Kin, 2 Make Memories: Care Ethics in The Fast Saga.” Contemporaries at Post-45: “For Speed and Creed: The Fast and Furious Franchise,” Nov. 2022

“‘Say You’ll Remember Me…All Too Well’: Taylor Swift’s Memory Work. The Literary Taylor Swift, Bloomsbury, forthcoming.

Book Reviews 

“Out Of Mind: Mode, Meditation, and Cognition in Twenty-First Century Narratives by Torsa Ghosal (Ohio State University Press, 2021),” C21 Literature, forthcoming.

Public Writing

“9 Books That Complicate Our Healing Narratives,” Electric Literature, Feb. 23, 2023.

Education
Ph.D. in English Literature, Boston University, In Progress
M.A. in English Literature, Boston University 2019
B.A. in English Literature, Hamilton College 2017