Arielle Zibrak

English

Professor

Contact Information

azibrak@uwyo.edu

Hoyt Hall 239

Seibold leave for Academic year 2025-2026

Personal website
Arielle Zibrak

Biography

Arielle Zibrak began teaching at the University of Wyoming in 2014 and received the University of Wyoming College of Arts and Sciences Extraordinary Merit in Teaching Award in 2017 and the University of Wyoming College of Arts and Sciences Extraordinary Merit in Research Award in 2021. She is also the Vice President of The Edith Wharton Society and the Director of the Rebecca Harding Davis Archive:

https://www.rebeccahardingdavisarchive.org/ 

Her work includes four books: She is the author of Avidly Reads: Guilty Pleasures (New York University Press, 2021) and Writing Against Reform: Aesthetic Realism in the Progressive Era (University of Massachusetts Press, 2023) and the editor of Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence: New Centenary Essays (Bloomsbury, 2019) and Twelve Stories by American Women Writers (Penguin Classics, 2025). Her shorter work has appeared in American Literature, Arizona Quarterly, Criticism, ESQ, J19, LitHub, The Los Angeles Review of Books, McSweeney’s, The Millions, the New Yorker, Women’s Studies, and elsewhere. She is currently at work on a public history of New Thought and alternative women’s wellness culture forthcoming from Liveright/Norton.

 

Education

Ph.D., English, Boston University

M.A., English, Boston University

B.A., English, University of Rochester

 

Recent and Upcoming Courses

E NGL 5050: Writing for the Public Humanities

ENGL 5320: Realism & Naturalism

ENGL 5000: The Fiction of Reform

ENGL 5530: Modern Critical Theory and Practice

ENGL 4640/WMST 4500: American Women Writers

ENGL 3500: 19th-Century American Literature

ENGL 3600: 20th-Century American Literature

 

Research Interests

The Public Humanities, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century American Literature, Feminisms, Literary Realism and Naturalism, The Fin de Siècle, Social Reform, Victorian Literature, Aesthetic Theory