Victoria Googasian

Victoria Googasian is Assistant Professor of American Literature at Georgetown University in Qatar. Her research focuses on 20^th and 21^st century American literature, narrative theory, animal studies, and the environmental humanities.

Professor Googasian’s first book Animal Minds, Other Minds: Nonhuman Intelligence and Narrative Form in American Fiction is forthcoming from the University of Virginia Press in 2026. Her work has also been published in New Literary History, NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, JML: Journal of Modern Literature, and Regeneration: Environment, Art, Culture.

At GU-Q, Professor Googasian teaches courses in culture and politics, American literature, and environmental humanities, and is a faculty co-lead of the Program in Energy Humanities.

Professor Googasian received her Ph.D. in English and American literature from Stanford University.