Tiffany Aldrich MacBain

Professor and Interim Chair, English

Tiffany Aldrich MacBain is a nineteenth-century Americanist whose areas of interest include life writing, Indigenous literatures, and national mythologies. She enjoys archival research and has worked extensively with the diaries and letters of Abby Williams Hill (1861-1943), a professional landscape painter and avid writer whose travel and wilderness excursions challenged conventional notions of femininity and motherhood in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Professor MacBain’s publications include “The Wild Work of Gender Play in the Journals of Abby Williams Hill” (Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature) and “‘Make a Picture of Yourself’: Indigenous Portrayals in the Reservation Diaries of Abby Williams Hill” (Legacy).  

Education
BA University of California, Davis 1991
MA California State University of Sacramento 1998
PhD University of California, Davis 2004
Classes
Events in English ENGL 197-A Fall 2024
Intro to Creative Nonfiction ENGL 229-A Fall 2024
Native American Literature ENGL 362-A Fall 2024
Adv Seminar in American Lit ENGL 431-B Fall 2024
Events in English ENGL 197-A Spring 2025
Fundamentals of Editing ENGL 297-A Spring 2025
Douglass and Whitman ENGL 344-A Spring 2025
Adv Seminar in American Lit ENGL 431-A Spring 2025

Contact Information

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