Erick DuPree is an author and cultural anthropologist.

I’m a literary anthropologist exploring how stories shape who we are. My work lingers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries—an age when love, masculinity, and the body became the language through which identity was imagined and contested.

My research traces the intersections of power, desire, and belief as they emerge through material culture, literary production, and lived practice. In particular, I study how the “happily ever after” trope, rooted in the marriage politics of the Romantic and Victorian periods continues to inform modern narratives of intimacy and selfhood.