Professor Harrison’s primary research interest in Stowe centers on nineteenth-century dramatic adaptations of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and, in particular, the competing adaptations staged by George Aiken at the National Theatre and H. J. Conway at P.T. Barnum’s American Museum. In addition to nineteenth-century American literature, Dr. Harrison is interested in the intersections between literary studies and information technologies grouped under the rubric Digital Humanities. He is currently in the early stages of research on a project examining chess and the rise of nineteenth-century information technologies in the writings of Edgar Allan Poe.