Department/College/UnitGraduate Studies Division

TitlePhD Student & Teaching Assistant

AffiliationGraduate

Primary Office LocationHumanities Building 1
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Office HoursBy appointment only

Mail StopLiterature Department

Biography, Education and Training

Skyler Rose Marshall is a reader, writer, educator, book collector, and student of literature from Benicia, California. She received her Bachelor of Arts from UC Berkeley, with honors, focusing on nostalgia in British children’s literature and Virginia Woolf’s novel To the Lighthouse. Her past work has included yoga teaching, administration and logistics at an Alaskan salmon cannery, and various editing and tutoring roles. She is currently the Executive Assistant for writer, speaker, and teacher Dr. Laurel Braitman, and the company manager for Santa Cruz Shakespeare. Her research now focuses on Virgnia Woolf's evolving conception of reading: why to do it, how it could be done well, and why it matters for the development of a common literary culture.

Research Interests

Literary Criticism

Virginia Woolf

The Novel

Modernism

William Shakespeare

Biography 

Intellectual History

Nostalgia

British Literature, c. 1850-1950

Awards, Honors and Grants

• 2022-2023 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award
• 2023-2024 Anne & Jim Bay Fellowship
• 2024 THI Public Humanities Fellowship, Santa Cruz Shakespeare