Kristen Starkowski

Kristen Starkowski completed her Ph.D. in English at Princeton University in 2021. Before coming to MIT, she taught at the Harvard College Writing Program. Currently, she is working on a mixed-methods study about students’ experiences with writing in STEM. Her other research focuses on minor characters in the Victorian novel and proposes a new methodology of reading for the various networks of survival and subsistence in the nineteenth-century social and economic world. Kristen's work has appeared in Composition Forum, Discourse and Writing, Novel, Victorian Review, and other outlets. She is an active member of the Boston-area writing community and serves on the BRAWN Board of Governors.