Danielle Spratt (she/her)
Professor

Brief Biography

Danielle Spratt (she/her) is a professor of eighteenth-century British and transnational literature in the Department of English and founder and Director of the Center for Public Humanities at California State University, Northridge. She is also the current director of the NEH-funded Blank Spaces in the CSUN University Library project, along with co-PIs Ellen Jarosz and Nicole Shibata (University Library). Her areas of interest include the literature of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and early nineteenth centuries (specifically 1620-1830), the history of science and medicine, the rise of the novel, print ephemera, feminist and gender theory, public humanities and digital humanities, digital accessibility, experiential and antiracist community-engaged learning pedagogies, and theories of social justice.

She recently completed a three-year term as Director of the Office of Community Engagement, during which she successfully led the campus' Carnegie Community Engagement Reclassification (2026). With Drs. Mirna Troncoso Sawyer, Nelida Duran, and Rosalia Garcia-Torres, she collaborated on the Basic Needs Outreach Initiative, funded by an AB 74 Campus Climate Grant. Between MA and PhD programs, she was an AmeriCorps VISTA volunteer. Her most recent book is an edited collection entitled Reading Jane Austen: An Introduction (Routledge, 2026). In 2023, she received CSUN's Visionary Community-Based Service Learning Award.

Research 

Postocolonial Studies Digital culture and rhetoric History of Gender History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Literature in English, British Isles

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