Visiting Assistant Professor
(Ph.D., University of Connecticut)
Fields: Multi-ethnic Literature of the United States; Digital Humanities; Disability/Mad Studies; Young Adult Literature
Email: hstefan@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 214
Office hours: MW 1-2; Th 10–11 via Zoom, and by appt.
Phone: 508-793-3331
Website: hayleystefan.org
Courses taught
- American Immigrant Narratives
- Intro to Literary Study: Reading Bodies & Disability
- Latinx Literature
- Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S.
- Touchstones 2A: American Literature
- Montserrat: Embodied Activism
Selected publications
- “Mad Violence, White Victims, and Other Gun Violence Fictions: The Gap Between School Shootings and Systemic Gun Violence.” Research on Diversity in Youth Literature, vol. 3, no. 1, 2021.
- “Tortured Images in Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer & the War on Terror.” College Literature, vol. 48, no. 2, 2021.
- “A (Head) Case for a Mad Humanities: Sula’s Shadrack and Black Madness.” Disability Studies Quarterly, vol. 38, no. 4, 2018.