Ariel Clark Silver

Education

“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

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