Shannon McBriar teaches Modernism and Postmodernism in Theory and Fiction, Introduction to Poetry and Narrative, and Literature and Science at AUC. In addition, she coordinates the first year academic writing course and co-coordinates the third-year theme course, Rethinking the Sublime. Having studied English literature at Boston College (1996), she completed both her MPhil (1998) and DPhil (2006) at Oxford University, where she taught late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century literature. While at Oxford, she was a research associate at Oxford University Press and contributor to the "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography." During her doctoral studies, she was granted an Andrew Oliver Fellowship by the Massachusetts Historical Society for research relating to nineteenth-century Anglo-American literature, aesthetics and art criticism.