Holly Nelson

Holly Nelson is a first-year Ph.D. student in English Language and Literature and Rackham Merit Fellow at the University of Michigan. Holly is a recent graduate of Johns Hopkins University (Phi Beta Kappa), where she triple-majored in English, History, and Medicine, Science, and the Humanities. Her research interests include modernism, drama, performance studies, historiography, dance, and the archive. An avid dancer, choreographer, and actress herself, Holly has written several prizewinning papers on twentieth-century performance, founded primarily on archival research she conducted at Hopkins as a Woodrow Wilson Research Fellow. Here at U-M, Holly is the Co-Coordinator of the American Studies Consortium and an Archival Researcher at the Detroit River Story Lab.