CR Dean
What's a 'CR' you ask?
Educator | Researcher | Student
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CR Dean
​CR Dean is a first-generation doctoral student in the English Department at the University of Florida, where she studies and teaches American, British/Victorian, and transatlantic literature, multimodal writing, comic and graphic narratives, and archival sciences. Her research and teaching interests lie at the intersections of digital rhetoric, digital humanities, decolonializing the archive and literature, and the socio-political effects and power of literature.
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Her tentative dissertaion project, Decolonizing the ‘Other’ and the ‘Monster’: Racialization and Mixed-Race Identity is interdisciplinary and transatlantic, and examines nine texts alongside archival research including images, illustrations, comics, and ephemera, to explore the birth, evolution, control, emergence, and disruptive nature of mixed-race identity in literature.
She is a first-generation college graduate of the Torrey Honors College at Biola University and deeply values the good, the true, and the beautiful. A transplanted California sunflower, CR, is taking her sojourn in the South one day at a time exploring coffee and boba shops with her service dog when she’s not reading or at the pottery studio.
Education
Ph.D. English, Department of English, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. Dissertation (tentatively titled): Decolonizing the ‘Other’ and the ‘Monster’: Racialization and Mixed-Race Identity, Committee: Margaret Galvan (chair), Pamela Gilbert, tbd.
M.A. English, Department of English, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, Expected Summer 2025.
B.A. Psychology, cum laude, Biola University, La Mirada, CA, 90639, 2018.
Torrey Honors College, Biola University, La Mirada, CA, 90639, 2019.
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Research Interests
American studies & literature, Native American studies & literature, African American studies & literature, Victorian & British studies & literature, transatlantic studies, archival science, comics & graphic narrative, digital humanities, socio-political studies, and psychology.