Ariel Clark Silver

  • Assistant Professor of English

Education

  • Ph.D. English, Claremont Graduate University, 2011
  • A.M. Religion & Biblical Literature, University of Chicago, 1996
  • A.B. Religion & Biblical Literature and Dance, Smith College, 1993


Education


  • Ph.D. English, Claremont Graduate University, 2011
  • A.M. Religion & Biblical Literature, University of Chicago, 1996
  • A.B. Religion & Biblical Literature and Dance, Smith College, 1993

Courses


  • Core: Classics of Western Literature, Advanced Composition, American Literature

Teaching Positions & Professional Experience


  • Joined Southern Virginia University faculty in 2022
  • Faculty Member, Columbus Ohio Institute of Religion, 2013-22
  • Faculty Member, The Waterford School, 1995-97

Scholarship & Creative Work


  • “The Book of Esther” Follow Him Podcast
  • Esther in America
  • “The Scarlet Letter as a Great American Novel”
  • “Search for Eve in Twain’s Garden of Eden”
  • “Queen Aster and Queen Esther”
  • Published monograph The Book of Esther and the Typology of Female Transfiguration in American Literature, Rowman & Littlefield, 2018
  • Book chapter in The Forgotten Alcott: Essays on the Artistic Legacy and Literary Life of May Alcott Nieriker, Routledge, 2022
  • Published book chapter in Esther in America, edited by Stuart W. Halpern, Maggid Books, 2020.
  • Published journal article “From Literary Salon to Library: The Female Mind and the Art of Reading Across the Color Line,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 2021.
  • Published journal article “Joan of Arc as Avatar of Female Agency and Action in America,” RFEA, 2019
  • Book review of Melville’s Wisdom: Religion, Skepticism, and Literature in Nineteenth-Century America, Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies, 2022
  • Book review of Psychoanalytic Readings of Hawthorne’s Romances: Narratives of Unconscious Crisis and Transformation, Nathaniel Hawthorne Review, 2022.
  • Essay forthcoming in Every Needful Thing, BYU Maxwell Institute and Deseret Book, 2023

Awards, Leadership & Service


  • Quarry Farm Fellow, Center for Mark Twain Studies, 2022
  • MWHIT Independent Scholar Award, 2021
  • Women’s Author Initiative, Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, 2021
  • President-elect, Hawthorne Society, 2020-present
  • Executive Board, Hawthorne Society, 2020
  • External Peer Reviewer, Israeli Science Foundation, Anthem Press, Neophilologus, 2020-22
  • Panel Creator and Organizer, NeMLA, 2020-21
  • Panel Creator and Organizer, International Melville Symposium, 2019
  • Panel Chair, ALA, 2018, 2021
  • National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellow, 2017, 2018
  • Has presented around the world on authors such as Hawthorne, Melville, Fuller, and Alcott and figures such as Esther, Hagar, and Eve since 2014

Memberships


  • Modern Language Association
  • American Literature Association
  • C19
  • American Society of Religion and Literature
  • Society for the Study of American Women Writers
  • Society for Biblical Literature
  • American Academy of Religion