19th and 20th Century American Literary Regionalism, New England Literary Regionalism, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Ella studies 19th and 20th Century American literary Regionalism. She is particularly interested in the region of New England, specifically women and queer writers. Her studies focus on incorporating other 19th and 20th-century writers whom the traditional literary canon has historically considered outside the genre. Ella is interested in using geography and urban studies to understand how structures of power work in rural landscapes.
Ella received her Bachelor of Art from Bryn Mawr College, where she majored in Literatures in English and double minored in History and Growth & Structure of Cities. She received the Hanna Holborn Gray Fellowship. She is a Tremont Historical Society board member in Mount Desert Island, Maine. She serves as a representative for the History Trust, a regional alliance that engages the public with the shared histories of the Mount Desert Island area.