Kristin Allukian

Associate Professor and Graduate Director

CONTACT

Office: CPR 360-D
Phone: 813-974-9529
Email

EDUCATION

  • Ph.D., University of 91社区

  • M.A., Trinity College
  • B.A., Mount Holyoke College

AREAS OF SPECIALTY

American literature before 1900; women's literature; archive studies; gender, sexuality, and feminist theory; and digital humanities.

BIO

Kristin Allukian is a scholar of American literature before 1900 with expertise in women鈥檚 literature, archive studies, gender, sexuality, and feminist theory, labor studies, and digital humanities. Her award-winning first book Slavery, Capitalism, and Women鈥檚 Literature: Economic Insights of American Women Writers, 1852-1869 (Georgia, 2023) offers a critical intervention in slavery/capitalism studies by reading women鈥s literature as sites for exploring the material-historical connections between slavery and capitalism and articulating how imaginative writing can extend and reshape our understandings of economic systems. She is a section editor of Liminality, Hybridity, and American Women鈥檚 Literature: Thresholds in Women鈥檚 Writing (Palgrave, 2018), an edited collection that highlights the multiplicity of American women鈥檚 writing related to liminality and hybridity from its beginnings to the contemporary moment. Her current book project uses previously unexamined private letters from nineteenth-century women mill workers to explore what the epistolary culture of the United States鈥檚 first class of wage-earning women workers can tell us about key moments in U.S. labor history. Allukian has published articles in leading journals including Legacy, ESQ, Women鈥檚 Studies, Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies, and Resources for American Literary Study. Her work has been supported by research grants from organizations including the Massachusetts Historical Society, the McKnight Junior Faculty Fellowship,  the Mount Holyoke Alumnae Association, the USF Humanities Institute, and USF Women in Philanthropy and Leadership. Prior to joining USF, she was a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Pedagogy at Georgia Tech.

Allukian teaches undergraduate and graduate courses that explore a range of issues in pre-1900 American literature including social reform, labor debates, feminisms, etc. through archive studies and digital humanities (DH) methodologies. She oversees a DH lab and is co-founder, with Dr. Ana Stevenson, of the Suffrage Postcard Project, a feminist digital humanities project. The Suffrage Postcard Project is a team initiative between faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students; it integrates DH methodologies with feminist archival work to explore how transatlantic suffrage postcards and feminist DH practices engender new historical narratives about the suffrage movement. Allukian has served on over forty doctoral, master鈥檚, and undergraduate dissertation and thesis committees. She is Graduate Director of English, Director of the Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities, and affiliate faculty of the Department of Women鈥檚, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

Kristin Allukian is active in the Society for the Study of American Women Writers, serving as VP of Membership & Finances (2023-2026) and as an Advisory Board member (2026-2029) and serves on the Executive Council of the 91社区 Digital Humanities Consortium (2023-present).

Dr. Allukian welcomes inquiries from interested graduate students; please contact her directly at kallukian@usf.edu.

Selected PUBLICATIONS

Books

  • Slavery, Capitalism, & Women鈥檚 Literature: Economic Insights of American Women Writers, 1852-1869. University of Georgia Press, 2023. Honorable Mention, Society for the Study of American Women Writers 2025 Book Award.
  • Eds. Kristin J. Jacobson, Kristin Allukian, Leslie Allison, Ricki-Ann Legleitner. Liminality, Hybridity, and American Women鈥檚 Literature: Thresholds in Women鈥檚 Writing. New York: Palgrave, 2018.

Articles and Book Segments

  • 鈥Woven Whiteness in Lucy Larcom鈥檚 鈥榃eaving.鈥鈥&苍产蝉辫;Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 40.1-2 (2023): 85-107.
  • 鈥淢arriage, Career, and Class in the Private Letters of Harriot Curtis, Co-Editor of the Lowell Offering.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Resources for American Literary Study, 42.2 (June 2021): 225-255.
  • 鈥淭he Suffrage Postcard Project: Transatlantic Suffrage History and Feminist Digital Archiving.鈥 Co-authored with Dr. Ana Stevenson. Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies, 8.8 (May 2021): 1-25.
  • 鈥淒ecentering Digital Discomfort: Feminist Digital Pedagogy in the DH Lab.鈥 Co-authored with A. Cendrowski and A. Duque. Hybrid Pedagogy. (October 2020): np.
  • 鈥淭he 鈥楤rilliant Careers鈥 of Women Lecturers and Other 鈥楾errible Creatures鈥 in Henry James鈥 The Bostonians and Lillie Devereux Blake鈥檚 Fettered for Life.鈥&苍产蝉辫;ESQ: A Journal of Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture. 65.1 (July 2019): 73-107.
  • 鈥淓arly American Women Writers: The Potentiality of the Continual Self-Creating Act鈥 and 鈥淎fterword: Beyond Thresholds鈥擲uggestions for Further Research and Teaching Resources for Early American Women Writers.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Liminal Spaces and Hybrid Lives in American Women鈥檚 Writing. Ed. Kristin J. Jacobson. New York: Palgrave, Spring 2018.
  • 鈥淎 Conversation 鈥榠n the Air鈥: Woman鈥檚 Right to Productive Labor in Eliza Potter鈥檚 A Hairdresser鈥檚 Experience in High Life and Louisa May Alcott鈥檚 Work: A Story of Experience.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Women鈥檚 Studies An inter-disciplinary journal. 45.16 (August 2016): 1-19.
  • 鈥淩ule-guided Expression: Gender Dissent across Mediated Literary Works.鈥 Co-authored with M. Carassai. Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology. No. 8 (November 2015): np.
  • 鈥溾業f not in this world in another, perhaps?鈥: Transatlantic Approaches to the New Man Question in Elizabeth Gaskell鈥檚 North and South and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps鈥 The Silent Partner,鈥&苍产蝉辫;Symbiosis: A Journal of Transatlantic Literary and Cultural Relations. 19.1 (April 2015): 25-45.

DIGITAL HUMANITIES PROJECT

 is a digital archive which analyzes 1100+ early twentieth-century pro- and anti-suffrage postcards to explore how feminist digital humanities practices offer new historical narratives of the U.S. suffrage movement. Co-Founded with Dr. Ana Stevenson.