Max L. Chapnick

Northeastern University, Instructor

• ENGW 3307 Advanced Writing in Science, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, and Summer 2024 (Writing Program) (Syllabus)

• ENGW 1111 First-Year Writing, Fall 2023 and Spring 2024, two sections each semester (Writing Program)  (Syllabus)

Boston University, Instructor

• WR 152 Digital Writing Research: “Radical Boston,” Spring 2023 (Writing Program) (Syllabus)

• EN 130 “(Politicizing) Science/Fiction,” Spring 2021 (English Department) (Syllabus)

• EN 120 “Environmental Literature,” Fall 2020 (English Department) (Syllabus)

• WR 150 Writing Research: "Quantum Modernism," Spring 2020 (Writing Program)

• WR 120 Introduction to Writing: "Quantum Modernism," Fall 2019 (Writing Program)

Boston University, Teaching Assistant

• Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Climate Change, Fall 2022 (Honors College)

• British Literature I, Spring 2019 (English Department)

• Jane Eyre’s American Sisters, Fall 2018 (English Department)

Selected Interviews & Recorded Presentations

Selected interviews on Alcott pseudonym and attributions

• "The Many psuedonyms of Louisa May Alcott," Northeastern University, June 2024

• "Northeastern researcher believes he found 20 new works by Louisa May Alcott," CBS Boston, November 2023

• "New research uncovers a pseudonym potentially used by author Louisa May Alcott," WBUR Radio Boston, November 2023

• "Discovery of Louisa May Alcott work found under new pseudonym, researcher says," Northeastern Global News, November 2023

• "Researcher uncovers a new body of work believed to be by Louisa May Alcott," The Guardian, November 2023

• "Louisa May Alcott used pen names. A researcher thinks he found another," WBUR Arts & Culture News, October 2023

Recorded Presentations

• "Mark Twain vs. Christian Science and Empire," Tenth Annual Quarry Farm Symposium, September 2023

• "Twain’s Connecticut Yankee in Pseudo-Scientific Socialist Utopias," Park Church Lecture, July 2022

Selected Awards

Peer-reviewed Articles

• “Duty and Ambition in Louisa May Alcott Poems, Old and New,” American Periodicals 34.2, 2024

• “Characters as Fields: Michael Faraday, Electromagnetism, and Charles Dickens's Bleak House,” winner of the BSLS/JLS Early Career Prize, Journal of Literature and Science 17.1, 2024

• “New Louisa May Alcott Pieces: Radical Sensation in a Culture of Ambiguous Attribution,” J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists 11.1, 2023

• “George Eliot, Edward Said, and Romantic Zionism,” special issue on “Palestine: Romanticism’s Contemporary,” edited by Lenora Hanson, Studies in Romanticism 62.2, 2023

• “Girls’ High and the ‘Wild Facts’ of Race in Pauline Hopkins’s Of One Blood,” special issue on "Revisiting Black Boston," edited by Kerri Greenidge and Holly Jackson, The New England Quarterly 95:2, 2022

Academic Editing

• Forum co-editor with Eagan Dean, “Louisa May Alcott’s Work at 150,” Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, forthcoming 2024

• Co-editor of “The Phantom” by E. H. Gould and “The Painter’s Dream” by Louisa M. Alcott, J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists 11.1, 2023

Short Forms in Refereed Publications

• With Eagan Dean, Introduction to “Louisa May Alcott’s Work at 150,” Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, forthcoming 2024

• “Year in Conferences,” co-reporter for the C19 Conference and the ALA Conference, ESQ, 69.1, 2023

• “Year in Conferences,” co-reporter for the Society of American Women Writers Conference, ESQ, 68.1, 2022

• “To Save Our Profession: Unionize!” (Forum Letter) PMLA 136:5, 2021

• Review of Mary Bowden’s “H. G. Wells’s Plant Plot: Horticulture and Ecological Narration in The Time Machine,” Journal of Literature and Science, 14:1-2, 2021

• Review of Rachel Crossland’s Modernist Physics: Waves, Particles, and Relativities in the Writings of Virginia Woolf and D. H. Lawrence, Configurations 28:1, 2020

Public-Facing Work