Graduate Tutor
Kristin Lacey is a PhD candidate in English and American Literature at Boston University. Her dissertation, “The Ambition Revolution: Gender and the Pursuit of Success in Nineteenth-Century American Literature,” studies the concurrent rise of individualist ambition and capitalism in women’s fiction; primary materials like conduct manuals, advertisements, and periodicals; and critical histories. At BU, she has designed and taught courses on women and madness in literature, satire, nineteenth-century American literature, and queer American literature and culture. Teaching is her greatest passion; she particularly loves talking with students about unexpected parallels between course content and contemporary pop culture and current events.