Mia Cecily Florin-Sefton

Mia Florin-Sefton is a Lecturer-in-Discipline in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. A specialist in post-1865 American literature and culture, her first book project is titled The Disinherited: A New Literary History of America. More broadly, her research and teaching interests span political economy, gender and sexuality studies, intellectual history, critical race theory, settler colonial and post-colonial studies, the history of the novel, critical university studies, carceral studies, and the politics of prison education.

You can find her academic writing in Diacritics, Novel, Post45, Feminist Modernist Studies, Modernism/Modernity Print Plus, The Modernist Review, Literature and Medicine, and Catalyst, among other venues. Currently she teaches “Literature Humanities” in Columbia's Core Curriculum.