The Ohio State University at Lima

Dr. Megan Walsh

Megan Walsh received her PhD (2010) from Temple University in Philadelphia, and now joins Ohio State Lima as an Assistant Professor of English. She specializes in American literature and culture before 1865, and has particular interests in visual and material culture, print, and race. She is currently working on a book titled A Nation in Sight: Visual Technology and Literary Culture in the Early United States, which analyzes print responses to a range of visual media written during and just after the period of national founding. She has received awards from numerous institutions, including fellowships from the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and the Smithsonian Institution American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery. Her article, "The Politics of Vision: Charles Willson Peale in Print," is forthcoming in Early American Literature 46.1 (January 2011) and an essay on Benjamin Franklin and material culture will appear in the Companion to Benjamin Franklin published by Blackwell.