Zoe Trodd researches and teaches American protest literature, especially the literature of civil rights, anti-lynching and abolitionism. Currently she is a postdoctoral fellow at UNC Chapel Hill, in the Center for the Study of the American South. This Fall she will begin teaching at Columbia University, in the Institute for Research in African American Studies and the English Department. Her courses will range from undergraduate classes on African American Protest Literature to graduate seminars on Historical Memory. She has a PhD (06/09) from Harvard University's History of American Civilization department and a BA/MA (06/01) from Cambridge University in English Literature. Between 2001 and 2003 she was a Kennedy Fellow at Harvard with visiting scholar status. In 2008-09 she was an ACLS/Mellon Dissertation Fellow. Other recent grants include a Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Research Fellowship, a Yale Beinecke Library Visiting Fellowship, and a Harvard Justice, Welfare and Economics Research Fellowship. Her dissertation about the memory of abolitionism in 20th-century protest literature was a finalist for the Ralph Henry Gabriel Prize and is forthcoming as a book. She is working on several other book projects, including a monograph about Frederick Douglass in 20th-century literature and art, an anthology of responses to John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, and a co-authored book about Douglass and visual representation.