# Alice de Galzain Visiting Scholar, Transcendentalism Initiative ![Alice de Galzain smiling into the camera](/sites/g/files/omnuum4346/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/2026-07/Aliced.Galzain.png?itok=-KtRw_c_) email 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). - ## Role [Affiliated Researchers](/role/affiliated-researchers)