Cassidy Holahan is an Assistant Professor of English at University of Nevada, Las Vegas specializing in British literature of the long eighteenth century. She is currently working on her first book project—tentatively titled Dramatizing the Novel: Transmedial Exchange in the Long Eighteenth Century—which explores the influence of theatrical media forms on the rise of the eighteenth-century novel. Arguing that literary elements such as character and plotting were being co-constructed across the stage and the novel, given that many authors were writing in both forms, the project paints a picture of a far more experimental eighteenth-century novel, one which was not necessarily working towards the realism standards of the nineteenth-century novel.

Holahan’s research employs methodologies at the intersection of Book History and Digital Humanities. Her article, “Rummaging in the Dark: ECCO as Opaque Digital Archive,” published in Eighteenth Century Studies (ECS), analyzes the archival makeup of Eighteenth-Century Collections Online and the database’s influence on academic research. The article was awarded the Rare Books School’s Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography essay prize and received an honorable mention for the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies’ James L. Clifford Prize. She has work forthcoming in the collection Futures of Digital ScholarlyEditing with the University of Minnesota Press.

Further information on Holahan’s research and digital humanities projects can be found on her website.