Neşe Devenot is currently an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities at the University of Puget Sound. She received her PhD in 2015 from the Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania, where she studied psychedelic philosophy, the literary history of chemical self-experimentation ("trip reports"), and radical poetics. She taught the class "Drug Wars: The Influence of Psychoactive Rhetoric" as a 2014-15 Critical Speaking Fellow at Penn, where she previously taught "Higher Dimensions in Literature" and "Poetic Vision and the Psychedelic Experience." Devenot was also a 2014-15 Andrew W. Mellon Graduate Research Fellow with the Penn Humanities Forum, where she worked on the project "'Innumerable Fine Shades': Psychedelics and Synesthesia in the Literary Self-Experiments of Aldous Huxley."
