Naturalism’s International Identity: Anti-Semitism, Alienation, and Women’s Writing Available to Purchase

Cara Erdheim Kilgallen is an Associate Professor of English and Chair of the Languages and Literatures Department at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut. Her teaching and scholarship interests range from disability narratives and sports stories to environmental literature and food writing. Her research focuses on early twentieth-century American literature, particularly literary naturalism and Progressive-Era writing. She has published peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Upton Sinclair, and Richard Wright. Jewish American literature has become a recent research and scholarly interest, which she looks forward to sharing through this contributed piece.