Biography

Dr. Dolan researches U.S. literature and food studies, the stories we tell and the foods we share, and how those influence our culture. Prior to joining the English and Technical Communication department at Missouri S&T, Dr. Dolan was a postdoctoral scholar in the English department at University of South Florida.

Dr. Dolan’s books include Beyond the Fruited Plain: Food and Agriculture in U.S. Literature, 1850-1905 (Nebraska, 2014), Cattle Country: Livestock in the Cultural Imagination (Nebraska, 2021), and Breakfast Cereal: A Global History (Reaktion/Chicago, 2023). Henry David Thoreau and the Nick of Time: Temporality and Agency in Thoreau’s Era and Ours, co-edited with John Kucich and Henrik Otterberg, will be published by Mercer University Press in 2025.

Disciplines

Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Food Studies, Global Studies, Environmental Criticism

Education

• Ph.D. in English, emphasis in Global Studies, UC Santa Barbara
• M.A. in English, San José State University
• B.A. in English, UC Los Angeles