Issue 19.3 (Winter 2023)

Contributor Biographies

Jean Fernandez is Professor of English at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. She is the author of Geography and the Literary Imagination in Victorian Fictions of Empire: The Poetics of Imperial Space, (Routledge 2020) and Victorian Servants, Class, and the Politics of Literacy, (Routledge, 2009). Her work has appeared in LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory, Victorian Poetry, Victorian Literature and Culture, New Hibernia Review, The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature , Victorian Review, Nineteenth Century Gender Studies, The Gaskell Journal, and The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women’s Writing. Her research interests include Victorian fiction, Empire studies, Women’s Writing, and working-class life writing.

Jessi Snider teaches English and humanities at Wharton County Junior College in Sugar Land, Texas. She holds a PhD from Texas A&M University with an emphasis in Victorian literature and literary theory, while her research focuses on narratology, literary recovery, and speech acts in the novel. Jessi’s work has appeared in various journals including Victorians, Children’s Literature in Education, The Journal of Language, Literature and Culture, and Janus Head. When she isn’t teaching or writing, you can find her doing judo with her four sons.

Doreen Thierauf (dthierauf@ncwu.edu) is Assistant Professor of English at North Carolina Wesleyan University, where she teaches British literature from the nineteenth century to the present. Her work on sexuality, reproduction, gender-based violence, and romance has appeared in Victorian Studies, Victorian Literature and Culture , Women's Writing, Victorian Review, Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, and other venues. With Erin Spampinato and Michael Dango, she is preparing an edited collection for SUNY Press entitled New Rape Studies: Humanistic Interventions, slated for publication in 2024.