Dr. Alexandra Socarides began serving as Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs at Emerson College on July 1, 2024. As Emerson’s Provost, she provides strategic vision, leadership, and support for all aspects of the academic enterprise: academic planning, program development at the undergraduate and graduate levels, assessment, hiring of faculty, advancement of faculty research and creative work, excellence in teaching, and global engagement initiatives.
She previously served in a variety of administrative roles at the University of Missouri, including Associate Provost, Chair of the English Department, Faculty Advisor to the Chancellor, and Director of Undergraduate Studies in English. As Associate Provost from 2020-2024, she built a suite of faculty success programs, including a faculty leadership development program, a mid-career faculty development program, and a program for junior BIPOC faculty; oversaw MU’s 300+ degree programs; and oversaw faculty affairs, including hiring, accreditation, and promotion and tenure.
A scholar and teacher of nineteenth-century American poetry, she is the author of two books from Oxford University Press: Dickinson Unbound: Paper, Process, Poetics (2012) and In Plain Sight: American Women’s Poetry and the Problem with Literary History (2020). She is also the co-editor of A History of Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Poetry (Cambridge UP, 2016) and Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown, Volume 7: Poetry (Bucknell UP, 2020). She is the recipient of several research fellowships, including ones from the Huntington Library and the American Antiquarian Society.
She holds a Ph.D. and a M.A. in English from Rutgers University, an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College, and a B.A. in English from Bates College.
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