Professor Rachel Trousdale is interested in the ways literature—particularly playful or experimental literature—helps us forge communities, expand empathic connection, and understand other people. This interest underlies her teaching in a variety of courses, including Transatlantic Modernism, British Literature II, Literary Study, Graphic Novels, and Fantasy and Science Fiction, and is the driving force behind her research, which includes her scholarly books Nabokov, Rushdie, and the Transnational Imagination and Humor, Empathy, and Community in Twentieth-Century American Poetry. She is also the author of a book of poems, Five-Paragraph Essay on the Body-Mind Problem.
