Allyson Stack

Dr Allyson Stack holds a BA from Yale, an MFA from Arizona State University and a PhD in English Literature from the University of Edinburgh. She has taught literature and creative writing on both sides of the Atlantic. Her short stories have appeared in journals throughout the United States and in Britain, and her fiction has been featured on National Public Radio and fourthirtythree Audio Magazine. She has received the AWP National Director’s Prize for her issue of Alligator Juniper, and her story 'The Front' was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2012. Most recently, her critical work has appeared in Seductions and Enigmas: Laplanche, Theory, Culture (Lawrence & Wishart, 2014), and her novel Under the Heartless Blue was published by FREIGHT in June, 2016. Most recently her work has appeared in Imagined Spaces and Copper Nickel. She is currently working on a scholarly monograph about Edith Wharton.

• North American fiction in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, particularly the work of Edith Wharton and Willa Cather
• psychoanalysis, specifically the work of Jean Laplanche

Postgraduate Teaching

Acts of Storytelling: Narrator, Text, and Audience

Exploring the Novel

Undergraduate Teaching

American Innocence

Reading Theory 1