Helena Kim is a PhD candidate in the Department of English. In her MA thesis, she wrote about Mary Shelley’s post-apocalyptic narrative The Last Man (1826) to question the problem of dwelling in the Anthropocene. Currently, she examines the late eighteenth- to mid-nineteenth century American fiction with a particular focus on transoceanic dialogues. Her broader research interests include material culture studies, ecocriticism, and gender studies. Since 2018, she has been working in the graduate student group ThingStor, a digitized material culture database that catalogs objects in literature and visual art.