Natalie Thompson

Natalie Thompson is a 2023-2024 PhD Plus Intern with the CTE and PhD Candidate in the English department. She’s particularly interested in promoting equity and transparency in both graduate and undergraduate education. She’s worked with graduate students as both a writing center consultant and a CTE consultant, and is passionate about supporting graduate students as teachers and learners.

Originally from Austin, Texas, she graduated from Bates College with a B.S. in English. Having split her time between humanities and biology courses as an undergraduate, Natalie enjoys consulting with STEM faculty and graduate students and conducting teaching observations across disciplines. Her disciplinary research focuses on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novels, narratology, novel theory, and intertextuality in fiction. Her dissertation maps space and place alongside narrative structure to examine the ways in which characters navigate their often-ambivalent relationships with domestic spaces, systems, and ideals.