Stephanie Vaughn

Professor Emerita & Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow

Overview

Stephanie Vaughn is the author of Sweet Talk (published as Able Baker Charlie Dog in UK editions, and as Alfa Bravo Charlie Delta in Spanish-language editions). Sweet Talk won the Southern Review award for fiction. She is the author of an introduction to a an edition of Willa Cather's My Ántonia. She graduated from The Ohio State University and the University of Iowa, and did post-graduate work at Stanford University as a Stegner Fellow. She came to Cornell as both a Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow and as an Assistant Professor of English. She now is Professor of English and a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow at Cornell.

Research Focus

  • Creative writing
  • 20th century contemporary fiction
  • The American short story