Liandra Elise Sy

B.A. English, summa cum laude, University of Minnesota (2015)

M.A. English, New York University (2016)

Liandra Sy is currently a second year Ph.D. in English at the University of Pennsylvania.

Interests

18th-Century British Literature Animal Studies Comparative Race and Empire Studies

Awards

2021 Andrew W. Mellon Price Lab Doctoral Fellowship in the Digital Humanities

News & Events

2021/05/11

Liandra Sy WIP: "Vegetable Figures: Humanist Fantasies of Plant Proportions in Richard Ligon's 'A True and Exact History of Barbados' (1657)"

2019/10/24

Professor Nikhil Anand (Penn Anthropology) on "The Promise of Infrastructure" and More

2019/10/10

Discussion of Said and Aboul-Ela

2018/02/23

Swift in the 21st Century

Courses Taught

spring 2021

ENGL 200.306 Women in Early Spy Fiction

fall 2018

ENGL 102.406 Monsters in Film & Literature (Recitation)