Alice de Galzain

Alice de Galzain is a postdoctoral researcher and former Marie Skłodowska-Curie Seal of Excellence Fellow at Sorbonne Université (2024–2026). She is a Visiting Scholar with the Transcendentalism Initiative at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School for the 2026–27 academic year.

Her book project, tentatively titled Cultivating Feminism: Brook Farm and the American Women’s Movement, examines the feminist subculture that emerged within Transcendentalist utopian communities. She is Associate Editor of The Concord Saunterer: A Journal of Thoreau Studies and Associate Editor of Margaret Fuller, Periodical and Other Writings (2 vols.), forthcoming in the Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Writings of Margaret Fuller.

Her scholarship has appeared in Transatlantica, LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory, The Dial, The Concord Saunterer, and Legacy. Her essay on Nathaniel Hawthorne and Margaret Fuller appears in Hawthorne Inside Out (Nanterre UP, 2026), and her forthcoming essay, “Margaret Fuller on Gender and Greek Mythology,” will appear in The History of Platonism in the Modern Age, Vol. V (Cambridge UP).