Molly Farrell
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Associate Professor, English
Areas of Expertise
- English
- Literature
Dr. Molly Farrell is an Associate Professor of English at the Ohio State University and author of Counting Bodies: Population in Colonial American Writing (Oxford, 2016) and New World Calculation: The Making of Numbers in Colonial America (Stanford, forthcoming). Her research explores the intersections of literacy, numeracy, gender, race, and colonialism. She has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Huntington Library, the American Antiquarian Society, OSU’s Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Theme, and others. In 2024, she received the Paul W. Brown Award for Excellence in Teaching from OSU’s College of Arts and Sciences. She loves collaborating with local K-12 education justice and reproductive justice organizers; co-working with other women faculty; and asking you to share your stories about learning math.