Faculty Bio

Gabriella Friedman

Assistant Professor in the Department of English

Education

• B.S., English language and general literature, Whitman College
• Ph.D., English language and literature, Cornell University

About

Gabriella Friedman, Ph.D., teaches and researches contemporary American literature, with particular emphasis on Black and Indigenous writers, science fiction, and historical fiction. Her courses include "Octavia Butler," "21st Century African American Literature," "(Not) At Home in Multiethnic American Literature", and "American Ghosts." She is a 2024 American Council of Learned Societies Fellow, and will be using the fellowship to complete her book project Speculative Historical Radicalism, which examines how science fiction by Black and Indigenous U.S. writers are reconfiguring the conventions of the historical novel. Her scholarship appears in publications including PMLA, American Literature, Modern Fiction Studies, and the forthcoming collection Science Fiction and the Historical Novel: Days of Future Past (Liverpool University Press).