Caroline McCracken-Flesher

Biography

Caroline McCracken-Flesher was educated at Edinburgh, Oxford and Brown universities. She specializes in the British nineteenth-century, the novel wherever it is to be found, Scottish literature and culture, the postcolonial, literary theory, the posthuman, the role of the public intellectual, heritage tourism, and film and literature. Her interests range into British comedy, science fiction, medical humanities and the literature of aging. Professor McCracken-Flesher hails from the UK. She has published books with notable presses including Oxford and Edinburgh, has been Convenor for the International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures, and serves on the boards of the National Trust for Scotland USA and the library of the Buffalo Bill Center of the West. At UW, she has won numerous awards including the Duke Humphrey Distinguished Faculty Award, and she has held fellowships at numerous institutions including Chawton House Library, the Beinecke, and the Huntington Library. She leads a number of international initiatives, including the UW in Scotland project, and directs UW’s Center for Global Studies. Professor McCracken-Flesher welcomes inquiries from students about courses and about their own potential projects in these fields.

Education

Ph.D., Brown University

Graduate study, Oxford University

M.A., University of Edinburgh

Recent and Upcoming Courses

Authors’ Houses

Literary Theory

Nineteenth-Century British Literature

Selected Publications

Walter Scott at 250: Looking Forward. With Matthew Wickman (Edinburgh 2021)

The Doctor Dissected: A Cultural Autopsy of the Burke and Hare Murders (Oxford, 2012).

Possible Scotlands: Walter Scott and the Story of Tomorrow (Oxford, 2005).

Approaches to Teaching the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (ed., MLA, 2012).

Awards

2022 Fellow, Schusterman Institute summer program, Brandeis 

2021 Shufro Fellow, Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Jerusalem

2019 Melon Fellow, Huntington Library

2016 UW George Duke Humphrey Distinguished Professor

2016 Honorary Fellow, Association for Scottish Literary Studies

2015 Fellow, Chawton House Library

2015 Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh

2015 Speaker on Scottish Literature at the Scottish Parliament

2012 Fellow, Beinecke Library Yale University

2008 Fellow, Huntington/British Academy, London