Bio
Nisa Ren Cannon is a Lecturer in the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford, the book reviews editor for the Journal of Modern Periodical Studies, and a member of the advisory board for the Hemingway Review blog. She holds a BA in Comparative Literature and Italian from UCLA, and a Ph.D. in English. Prior to arriving at Stanford, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Kilachand Honors College at Boston University.
Her research focuses on transatlantic modernism, interwar infrastructure, expatriation, and print culture.
Academic Appointments
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Lecturer, Writing and Rhetoric Studies
Current Research and Scholarly Interests
My research focuses on transatlantic modernism, citizenship, and print culture. My book project, which was chosen for the 2019 Penn State First Book Institute, argues that the bureaucratic and literary documents of interwar itinerancy–including passports, travel ephemera, and newspapers–shape expatriation as a distinct mode of national belonging.
2024-25 Courses
- Leland Scholars Program: Introduction to Collaborative Research at Stanford
UAR 43 (Aut) - Writing & Rhetoric 1: From Green Cards to Gaming Avatars: Mediated Identities
PWR 1NC (Spr) - Writing & Rhetoric 2: Discovering the Past: The Rhetoric of Archival Exploration
PWR 2NCA (Aut, Win) -
Prior Year Courses
2023-24 Courses
- Leland Scholars Program: Introduction to Collaborative Research at Stanford
UAR 43 (Aut) - Writing & Rhetoric 1: From Green Cards to Gaming Avatars: Forms of Identity
PWR 1NC (Win, Spr) - Writing & Rhetoric 2: California Dreaming: The Golden State's Rhetorical Appeals
PWR 2NC (Aut)
2022-23 Courses
- Leland Scholars Program: Introduction to Collaborative Research at Stanford
UAR 43 (Aut) - Writing & Rhetoric 1: From Green Cards to Gaming Avatars: Forms of Identity
PWR 1NC (Aut) - Writing & Rhetoric 2: California Dreaming: The Golden State's Rhetorical Appeals
PWR 2NC (Win, Spr)
2021-22 Courses
- Leland Scholars Program: Introduction to Collaborative Research at Stanford
All Publications
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Katherine Anne Porter's Ship of Fools and the Ephemeral Promise of Transnational Community
OPEN LIBRARY OF HUMANITIES
2024; 10 (2)
View details for DOI 10.16995/olh.16531
View details for Web of Science ID 001303639900002
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Lending Books on the Left and Right Banks: Borrowing Practices at the American Library in Paris and Shakespeare and Company
Modernism/modernity Print+
2024; 8 (3)
View details for DOI 10.26597/mod.0297
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'Essentially an American Institution Planted on Foreign Soil': The American Library in Paris, the Paris Herald, the Paris Tribune and Ex Libris
CULTURAL HISTORY
2021; 10 (2): 207-225
View details for DOI 10.3366/cult.2021.0242
View details for Web of Science ID 000706084700004
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“No Man’s Ocean Ever Did Get the Best of Me”
ELN
2021
View details for DOI 10.1215/00138282-8815027
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“An Easy Chance to Do a Good Thing”: The Paris Tribune’s Campaign to Save the American Library
IdeAs
2021
View details for DOI 10.4000/ideas.11173
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The Institution as Infrastructure: The International American Chamber of Commerce and Transatlantic Trade
Modernism/modernity Print+
2020; 5 (2)
View details for DOI 10.26597/mod.0161
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"A UNIQUE PLAN OF GETTING DEPORTED": CLAUDE MCKAY'S BANJO AND THE MARKED PASSPORT
SYMPLOKE
2017; 25 (1-2): 141–53
View details for Web of Science ID 000425049600010
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The American Colonies: Paris's Chicago Tribune and Paris-American Identity
Journal of Modern Periodical Studies
2017
View details for DOI 10.5325/jmodeperistud.8.1.0034