About

I am a Visiting Lecturer in the Humanities Division at Lesley University and in the English Department at Framingham State University, where I am an NEH Faculty Fellow with the Digital Humanities Center. I am also a council member and former president of the New England American Studies Association. My work combines interests in American literature, critical ethnic studies, and print culture.

My book, Writing Across the Color Line: U.S. Print Culture and the Rise of Ethnic Literature, was published by the University of Massachusetts Press in the summer of 2020. It explores how U.S. writers of color interacted with commercial white publishers in the late nineteenth century. Research for the project was supported by fellowships at the Newberry Library, The Library Company of Philadelphia, and Fisk University.

As an instructor, I have taught English Composition I and II, Writing and the Literary Arts, Short Fiction, the 19th-century American Novel, Multiethnic American Literature, the Bildungsroman, and surveys of American literature.

Email: ldietrich [at] framingham.edu

Twitter: @LucasADietrich