I'm Holly Wiegand, a Teaching Fellow and Doctoral Candidate at Boston University. My work in the English Department and Writing Program at BU has been incredibly fulfilling, and I'm pursuing a career teaching students how to read and write well.

I am a dedicated teacher and scholar of 19th-century transatlantic literature and culture, women's studies, poetry, videogame studies, literature and religion, the novel, and more. I take an interdisciplinary lens connecting the past to our present.

I seek to model and foster collaboration, curiosity, and compassion in all my work.

My dissertation project, “Bold Devotion: Female Religious Authority and Transatlantic 19th-Century Fiction,” recovers the sophisticated work and words of real and fictional women preachers, writers, and theologians of the 19th century. I plan to defend summer 2024.

My work is forthcoming in Legacy and in the edited collection Victorians and Videogames with Routledge. I have extensive conference experience, and I'm also a current editor for Ampersand: An American Studies Journal out of BU's American & New England Studies Program.

I'm currently teaching a first-year writing & research seminar called "Ready Player Reader: Literary Video Games and Narrative" at BU. This class introduces students to a range of writing and close reading skills through encounters with videogame adaptations of literature, reading and playing Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days, Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, and Melville's Moby-Dick.

When I'm not reading and writing, I enjoy indoor rock climbing, kayaking, Montana downhill skiing, cooking, playing videogames, watercolor painting, and making runs to Blackbird Doughnuts in Boston.