Dr. Tara C. Foley

Interests

Nineteenth-Century American Literature
American Studies
Urban Studies
Medical Humanities

Education

Ph.D. Fordham University
M.A. City College, CUNY
B.A. New York University

Courses Taught

• ENG 2306: World Literature
• ENG 2310: American Literary Cultures
• ENG 3393: Literature of the American West and Southwest
• ENGL 4314: Urban Space and the American Literary Imagination
• ENGL 4333: Literature and Law
• ENGL 4334: Literature, Medicine, and Public Health

Bio

Tara Foley's research interests include nineteenth-century American literature and urban planning, health humanities, and literature of the American West. Her work has appeared in The Howellsian, Enarratio, the #Teaching C19 series from C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists and is forthcoming in the Mark Twain Journal. Her current book project analyzes the contributions of American writers to urban planning initiatives in major American cities at the end of the nineteenth century.