Allison R Neal

Allison Neal received her PhD in English from the University of California, Berkeley in 2019. Before coming to Duke, she was a Lecturer at Utrecht University, a Junior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, and a Wallace Fellow at the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies. Her first book, American Poetic Voice in the Era of Global Broadcast: Mass Vernacular, is forthcoming with Oxford University Press in 2025, and her work has appeared in English Literary History and Modernism/Modernity. She is now at work on a manuscript entitled Florentine Modernism: The American Avant-Garde, Renaissance Art, and the History of the Aesthetic. Focusing on the work of Gertrude Stein, Mina Loy, and Mabel Dodge, the project recovers the importance of Florence, as both a twentieth-century metropole and an emblem of the Renaissance past, to American literary modernism.