• Regions: Britain; England; Scotland
• Times: 17th to 19th centuries
• Themes:  British Literature; History of the Book; Intellectual History; History of Gender and Sexuality; Philosophy

Carly Yingst is a PhD candidate in English, with interests in the British novel of the long eighteenth century, book history and early media studies, and history and historicism, including queer and trans historicisms. Their dissertation—“Ephemeral History: Periodical Form and Doubled Time in the British Novel, 1720-1850”—reconsiders the early British novel’s relation to changing conceptions of time in modernity by investigating how novelists from Defoe to Shelley engage with practices of preserving ephemeral forms--like newspapers, journals, memorandums, and almanacs--that record present experience. Carly's writing has appeared in Digital Defoe: Studies in Defoe and His Contemporaries; and they have an article forthcoming in The Eighteenth-Century: Theory and Interpretation. They are also currently beginning a second project that will examine how ideas of authorship and print in the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries functioned as early technologies of gender transition.