About Eagan Dean

Eagan Dean, PhD

Assistant Professor of English at The College of Wooster.

I teach and study U.S. literature and cultural history, focusing on early American and nineteenth century periods. I specialize in the cultural history of gender, particularly the genealogy of ideas about gender instability and trans figures, which I study through archival, book historical, and transfeminist lenses. I am currently working on the book Inventing American Gender: Nineteenth Century Literary Gender and its Uses.

I am also an affiliated scholar with Stanford University’s Clayman Institute for Gender Research and the Essays Editor for Scholarly Editing.