Amanda Claybaugh is an associate professor in the department of English and comparative literature at Columbia University. She received her BA from Yale in 1993 and her PhD from Harvard in 2001. Her research and teaching focus on nineteenth-century British and US literature and trans-Atlantic literary relations. She is the author of
The Novel of Purpose: Literature and Social Reform in the Anglo-American World (Cornell, 2007), and she is currently at work on a project about the Reconstruction era and its depiction in US literature.
