My name is Don James McLaughlin. I am an associate professor of 19th-century American literature at the University of Tulsa. I earned my PhD in English from the University of Pennsylvania in July 2017.

My research focuses on late 18th and 19th century literary movements in the Americas, the queer past, histories of medicine and psychiatry, disability narratives, and the history of emotions. Research for my dissertation and first book has been supported by the Penn Humanities Forum, American Antiquarian Society, a Marguerite Bartlett Hamer Dissertation Fellowship at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, and a Quarry Farm Fellowship from the Center for Mark Twain Studies. I have published on the queer past, the history of medicine, progressive print cultures, and disability theory in American Literature, Literature and Medicine, J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, the New Republic, Common-place: The Journal of Early American Life, and Legacies, the magazine of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, as well as edited collections American Literature in Transition, 1770-1828 (Cambridge UP, 2022), edited by Hunt Howell and Greta LaFleur; the Walt Whitman Handbook (Oxford UP, 2024), edited by Kenneth Price and Stefan Schöberlein; the Ralph Waldo Emerson Handbook (Oxford UP, 2024), edited by Christopher Hanlon; the Cambridge History of Queer American Literature (2024), edited by Benjamin Kahan; and American Contact: Objects of Intercultural Encounters and the Boundaries of Book History (Cambridge UP, 2024), edited by Rhae Lynn Barnes and Glenda Goodman. In 2023, I published a critical edition of Sarah Orne Jewett’s A Marsh Island (1885) with the Q19 series at Penn Press. In 2025, I published my first monograph, Phobia and American Literature, 1705-1937: A Therapeutic History with the American Literary History series at Oxford University Press.