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Celia Marshik was selected as the Graduate Dean and Vice Provost for Graduate Education in May 2023. In this role, she oversees the strategic vision of the Graduate School and has worked collaboratively with campus leadership to improve resources and services for graduate students, faculty, staff, and postdocs. Celia is a strong advocate for graduate education both internally and externally and is focused on increasing awareness of graduate student and postdoctoral contributions to the University and greater community. Her mission to support graduate students from application to graduation is the driving force behind her work as dean.

With the support of a dedicated team of professionals across different areas, the Graduate School has launched a variety of new initiatives under her leadership related to community engagement, professional development, mentoring, health and wellness, curriculum review, improving policies and procedures, admissions and recruitment, housing, and financial services.

Celia is a product of the Midwest and the Big Ten: she holds a Bachelor of Arts in English and Women’s Studies from the University of Minnesota and a PhD in English and Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies from Northwestern University. She is a first generation college graduate and the first in her extended family to receive an advanced degree.

As a faculty member in the English Department since 2001, her scholarly research has focused on British modernism, including the relationships between literature and the law and between modernism and cultural studies. She is the author of  British Modernism and Censorship, At the Mercy of Their Clothes: Modernism, the Middlebrow, and British Garment Culture, and, with Allison Pease, Modernism, Sex and Gender as well as the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Culture.

Recent Publications

• The Post-Human Dissertation
• The Future Is Female