Officers & Board Members

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Executive Committee, 2025-2026

Alicia Carroll

Co-Chair, 2023-present

Professor of English, Auburn University

Research Interests:  Women writers, Victorian fiction, the new Woman, ecocriticism, ecological crime, critical plant studies, digital humanities

Selected Publications: New Woman Ecologies: From Arts and Crafts to the Great War and Beyond (Virginia, 2019); Dark Smiles: Race and Desire in George Eliot (Ohio, 2003); “Pest Control: Wasp Season in Agatha Christie’s ‘The Blue Geranium’” (The Routledge Handbook of Crime Fiction and Ecology, 2023); “Rivers Change Like Nations: Reading Eco-Apocalypse in Ouida’s The Waters of Edera” (Victorian Environmental Nightmares, 2019); “Leaves and Berries: Agatha Christie and the Herbal Revival” (Green Letters, 2018); “This is a Sacred Grove: Homosocial Ecologies in Adam Bede (Green Letters, 2015); “Small is Beautiful: Rethinking Localism from Wordsworth to Eliot” (Romantic Ecocriticism: Origins and Legacies, 2016); “Race” (George Eliot in Context, 2013)

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Nicole Reynolds

Co-Chair, 2023-present

Associate Professor of English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Ohio University

Research Interests:  British Romantic literature and culture, gender and sexuality studies, and the history of books and print culture.

Selected Publications: Building Romanticism: Literature and Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Britain (U of Michigan P, 2010); “The Many Lives of Mary Robinson’s Memoirs” (Studies in Romanticism, 2021); “Suicide, Romance, and Imperial Rebellion: Sati and the Lucretia Story in Sydney Owenson’s The Missionary: An Indian Tale” (Literature Compass, 2015); “Phebe Gibbes, Edmund Burke, and the Trials of Empire”(Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 2008)

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Doreen Thierauf

Web and Media Manager, 2024-present
Co-Secretary-Treasurer/Co-Web and Media Manager, 2023-2024
Secretary-Treasurer, 2018-2023

Associate Professor of English, North Carolina Wesleyan University

Research Interests: Victorian women’s writing, sexuality, gender-based violence, romance

Selected Publications: “Sexual Violence” (Oxford Bibliographies in Victorian Literature, 2022); “Rescuing the Magdalen: Aurora Leigh as Reform Worker” (Women’s Writing, 2020); “Tending to Old Stories: Daniel Deronda and Hysteria, Revisited” (Victorian Literature and Culture, 2018); “Daniel Deronda, Marital Rape, and the End of Reproduction” (Victorian Review, 2017)

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Caitlin Anderson

Secretary-Treasurer, 2024-present
Co-Secretary-Treasurer/Co-Web and Media Manager, 2023-2024

Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgia Institute of Technology

Research Interests: long-nineteenth-century literature, critical plant studies, gender and sexuality

Publications: “Green Machinations: Unknown Poison, Ecology and Female Criminal Agency in L. T. Meade’s The Sorceress of the Strand” (The Routledge Handbook of Crime Fiction and Ecology, 2023); “Uprooting and Replanting the Vegetal Body of Silas Marner in George Eliot’s Silas Marner” (Women’s Studies, 2021)

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Henna Messina

Director of Communications, 2025-present

Assistant Professor of English, Eastern New Mexico University

Research Interests: eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature, women’s writing, gender and sexuality, domesticity in the novel, British slavery and abolition

Publications: Precarious Domesticity in the British Novel: Space, Gender, and Empire (Lexington, 2024); “Toward a Model for Service-Learning in Advanced Writing Classrooms: Cultivating Interdisciplinary Student Stakeholders,” co-authored with Cameron Bushnell (The Journal of Service-Learning in Higher Education, 2024); “Bodily Matters: Creative Agency in Frances Burney’s Life Writing” (Women’s Writing, 2019); “Fanny Price’s Domestic Assemblages in Austen’s Mansfield Park” (Persuasions, 2016)

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Lauren Pinkerton

Mentorship Program Coordinator, 2022-present

Lecturer, University of California, Fullerton

Research Interests: late nineteenth and early twentieth century literature, intellectual history, novel studies

Publications: “Archiving Dracula: Knowledge Acquisition and Interdisciplinarity” (Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 2021); Generational Exchange and Transition in Women’s Writing (co-ed., Women’s Writing, 2019)

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Association Board, 2025-2026 

Elected Members 

• Pamela Buck
• Kimberly Cox
• Lana Dalley
• Cameron Dodworth
• Benjamin Hudson
• Melissa Purdue
• Cheryl Wilson

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Advisory Board, 2025-2026 

• Susan Brown
• Roxanne Eberle (Emerita Chair)
• Paula Feldman
• Pamela Gilbert
• Linda Hughes
• Kirstyn Leuner (Emerita Web and Media Manager)
• Harriet Kramer Linkin
• Tricia Lootens
• Laura Mandell
• Patricia Matthew
• Carol McKay
• Donelle Ruwe (Emerita Chair)
• Beverly Taylor