Adam McLain

Scholar | Editor | Writer

Adam McLain is a graduate student at the University of Connecticut, working in the Department of English, and a JD student at UConn Law. He received his undergraduate degree from Brigham Young University in English with minors in communications, editing, and women’s studies; his master of theological studies, emphasizing in women, gender, sexuality, and religion from Harvard University; and his MA in English from the University of Connecticut.

While at HDS, Adam worked as a special collections assistant at the Gutman Library for the Harvard Graduate School of Education, as a collections assistant at Houghton Library, as an editorial assistant at Harvard Library Bulletin, and as a research assistant at the Women’s Studies in Religion Program. He was a 2021–2022 Harvard Frank Knox Traveling Fellow, studying George Orwell and sexual violence in the United Kingdom.

While at BYU, Adam was an editorial intern at the Joseph Smith Papers, an editorial assistant at BYU Human Resources and Faculty Editing, a managing editor at Leading Edge Magazine and SCHWA, and editor-in-chief of AWE: A Woman’s Experience. He was also an active member of the Women’s Studies Honors Society and the University Honors Program.

Currently, Adam is also an instructor in the first-year writing program and women’s, gender, and sexuality department at UConn, assistant web editor at Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, and an active committee member in the English Graduate Student Association.