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Alexandra Edwards, Ph.D.
Instructor
Program Affiliations
Education
Ph.D., English, University of Georgia (2017)
MA, English, Villanova University (2012)
BA, English, Oglethorpe University (2006)
Courses Taught
Approaches to Film
Genre in Film
Theories of Cinema
Popular Literature
The Roaring Twenties
Multimedia Authoring: Animation and Film
Multimedia Authoring: Apps and eBooks
Intro to Nonfiction Genres: Anarchist Nonfiction
Introductory Composition: Writing as Inquiry
Intermediate Composition: Writing Argument
Areas of Focus
Early 20th-century American literature and film; digital interactive storytelling; antiracist and anarchist pedagogy
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Before Fanfiction: Recovering the Literary History of American Media Fandom. LSU Press, 2023. -
“Orlando: A Fanfiction; Or, Virginia Woolf in the Archive of One’s Own.” Journal of Modern Literature 44.3 (July 2021). -
“Hollywood Regionalism: What the Studio System Did with Gene Stratton-Porter’s Nature Novels.” Feminist Media Histories 6.2, Special Issue on Media and the Environment (April 2020). -
“‘Entre Nous’: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’s Pre-World War II Fan Mail.” The Journal of Florida Literature 25 (2017).
- Honorable Mention, MLA Prize for Contingent Faculty and Independent Scholars, for Before Fanfiction, 2023
- Outstanding Creative Achievement in Interactive Media: Original Interactive Program for Emma Approved, Primetime Emmy® Awards, 2015
- Outstanding Creative Achievement in Interactive Media: Original Interactive Program for The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, Primetime Emmy® Awards, 2013
Last Updated: August 21, 2026