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


  • 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.

All Publications


  • Katherine Anne Porter's Ship of Fools and the Ephemeral Promise of Transnational Community OPEN LIBRARY OF HUMANITIES Cannon, N. 2024; 10 (2)

    View details for DOI 10.16995/olh.16531

    View details for Web of Science ID 001303639900002

  • Lending Books on the Left and Right Banks: Borrowing Practices at the American Library in Paris and Shakespeare and Company Modernism/modernity Print+ Cannon, N. R. 2024; 8 (3)

    View details for DOI 10.26597/mod.0297

  • 'Essentially an American Institution Planted on Foreign Soil': The American Library in Paris, the Paris Herald, the Paris Tribune and Ex Libris CULTURAL HISTORY Cannon, N. 2021; 10 (2): 207-225
  • “No Man’s Ocean Ever Did Get the Best of Me” ELN Cannon, N. 2021

    View details for DOI 10.1215/00138282-8815027

  • “An Easy Chance to Do a Good Thing”: The Paris Tribune’s Campaign to Save the American Library IdeAs Cannon, N. R. 2021

    View details for DOI 10.4000/ideas.11173

  • The Institution as Infrastructure: The International American Chamber of Commerce and Transatlantic Trade Modernism/modernity Print+ Cannon, N. R. 2020; 5 (2)

    View details for DOI 10.26597/mod.0161

  • "A UNIQUE PLAN OF GETTING DEPORTED": CLAUDE MCKAY'S BANJO AND THE MARKED PASSPORT SYMPLOKE Cannon, N. 2017; 25 (1-2): 141–53
  • The American Colonies: Paris's Chicago Tribune and Paris-American Identity Journal of Modern Periodical Studies Cannon, N. R. 2017