Siobhan Carroll (born 1980) is a Canadian writer and professor of English at

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. She specializes in British literature from 1750 to 1850.

Early years

Carroll was raised in

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and moved to the United States in 2005, where she received her Ph.D. in English from

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at Bloomington. In 2008 she joined the faculty at University of Delaware. She published her first short story at age 20.

Career

Carroll is a humanities scholar and as a professor, specializes in British literature from 1750 to 1850. She teaches British Literature, Literature and Drama, Cultural Studies, Transatlantic/Transnational Studies, Environmental Humanities, Creative Writing and American Literature. In 2015 Carroll released a nonfiction text titled ''An Empire of Air and Water: Uncolonizable Space in the British Imagination, 1750-1850'' (

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, 2015), which describes the relationship between science, literature and exploration in the expansion of the

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. She is also the author of essays, reviews and peer-reviewed articles. Carroll has published a number of short stories in magazines including

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, Lightspeed and

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. In 2020 her

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novelette from

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For He Can Creep "For He Can Creep" is a 2019 historical fantasy short story by Siobhan Carroll, about the historical figure Christopher Smart and his Jubilate_Agno#Jeoffry, cat, Jeoffry. The story was adapted into the final episode of the List of Love, Death & R ...

'' won the 2020

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, and was a finalist for the

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in 2019, the 2020

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, and the 2020

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. ''For He Can Creep'' was adapted by

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for the fourth volume of ''

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'', released on

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in 2025. In 2016 Carroll was recipient of a fellowship grant from the Delaware Division of the Arts. She has taught at

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Personal life

Carroll is married and lives in

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External links

Official site
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References

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