Officers & Board Members

Executive Committee, 2025-2026

Alicia Carroll

Co-Chair, 2023-present

Professor of English, Auburn University, United States

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)

Nicole Reynolds

Co-Chair, 2023-present

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

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)

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, United States

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

Selected Publications: New Rape Studies: Humanistic Interventions (collection co-edited with Michael Dango and Erin A. Spampinato, SUNY Press, 2026); “Reproduction without Women: Demothering the Biological in Nineteenth-Century Speculative Fiction” (SEL, 2026); “‘A Matter of Practicality’: Mary Prince and Abolitionist Gaslighting” (Victorian Gaslighting, 2026); “Between Men: Towards a Theory of Eighteenth-Century Rape Culture” (co-authored with Erin A. Spampinato, Journal of Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2026)

Caitlin Anderson

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

Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgia Institute of Technology, United States

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)

Henna Messina

Director of Communications, 2025-present

Assistant Professor of English, Eastern New Mexico University, United States

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)

Lauren Pinkerton

Mentorship Program Coordinator, 2022-present

Lecturer, University of California, Fullerton, United States

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)

Association Board, 2026-2027 

Kimberly Cox

Director of Education Technology, Connecticut State Community College – Northwestern, United States

Research Interests: Literary pedagogy, digital pedagogy, Victorian fiction, Neo-Victorian fiction, romance fiction, vampire fiction, tactility, hands, sexuality, sexual assault

Selected Publications: Touch, Sexuality, and Hands in British Literature, 1740–1900 (Routledge, 2021); “Behind the Times: Unacknowledged Rape of Male Characters in Literature and Film” (New Rape Studies, 2026); “Death of the Essay? Generative AI, Literature Teachers’ Five Stages of Grief, and Alternative Assignment Design in Victorian Studies” (co-authored, Victorian Network, 2025); “Multiethnic Literature: Global Neo-Victorians” (Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom, 2023); “Prioritizing Pedagogy in Victorian Studies” (co-authored, Victorian Literature and Culture, 2023); “Women” (co-authored, Victorian Literature and Culture, 2023); “The Vampire’s Touch in ‘Olalla’ and The Blood of the Vampire” (A Feast of Blood, Routledge, 2022); “‘Teaching to Transgress’ in the Emergency Remote Classroom” (co-edited, Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, 2021).

Cameron Dodworth

Professor of English, Methodist University, United States

Research Interests: Gothic Studies, nineteenth-century literature and art, adaptation studies, food studies

Selected Publications: “Exotic Homogeneity: Culinary Othering in Dracula” (Revenant, 2023); “Miss Ives and ISIS: The Cult(ure) of Collaboration in Neo-Victorian Adaptations” (Neo-Victorian Studies, 2018); “Fears of Consumption and Being Consumed: The Gothicization of Food in Victorian Literature” (The Routledge Companion to Literature and Food, 2018); “The Strokes of Brush and Blade: How Basil Hallward Executed Dorian Gray in the Style of Naturalism” (Studies in Gothic Fiction, 2016); “Haunted Tomes, Haunted Canvases: Supernatural Realism in Nineteenth-Century Novels and Paintings” (Supernatural Studies, 2015); “The Mystery of the Moors: Purgatory and the Absence/Presence of Evil in Wuthering Heights” (Brontë Studies, 2012)

Helena Goodwyn

Assistant Professor of English Literature and Creative Writing, Northumbria University, United Kingdom

Research Interests: women writers, the literature and periodical culture of the long nineteenth century, the history of books and print culture, pedagogy.

Publications: The Americanisation of W. T. Stead (Edinburgh University Press, 2026); “A Familiar Transition: Dinah Mulock Craik’s Early Career in Periodicals, 1841–1845” (British Writers, Popular Literature, and New Media Innovation, 1820–1845, 2024); “Religion Sells! The Preacher, the Journalist and the Novel” (Victorian Popular Fiction Journal, 2023); “Coping Strategies in the 2020-21 Virtual Classroom: A Tribute to my Students” (Nineteenth Century Gender Studies, 2021); “A Woman’s Thoughts about Men: Malthus and Middle-Class Masculinity in Dinah Mulock Craik’s John Halifax, Gentleman” (Women’s Writing, 2021); “Margaret Harkness, W. T. Stead, and the Transatlantic Social Gospel Network” (Margaret Harkness: Writing Social Engagement, 1880-1921, 2018)

Benjamin Hudson

Associate Professor of English, Rollins College, United States

Research Interests: nineteenth-century British literature, queer writers, sexuality studies, the history of amateurism

Selected Publications: “Introduction, Notes, and Commentary: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams” (Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2023): “Myriad Meanings’: The Critical Afterlives of Oscar Wilde” (Critical Insights: Oscar Wilde, Salem Press, 2019); “Making Pins, Fashioning Laborers: The Manufacturing Logic of the Object Narrative in the 1790s” (The Eighteenth Century, 2017); “The Exquisite Amateur: FitzGerald, the Rubáiyát, and Queer Dilettantism” (Victorian Poetry, 2016).

Megha Mazumdar

Senior Doctoral Scholar, Department of English, Shiv Nadar University, India

Research Interests: death and mourning in Victorian literature, including the sickroom, mourning practices, and spiritual mediation as key sites where grief, ethics, and embodiment are negotiated

Publications: “Calm for Kalidasa, Chaos for Virgil: Ecofeminism in Abhijnana Shakuntalam and Aeneid” (Journal of Environmental Humanities, 2021); “The Unmoved Movement: Indian Diaspora” (TMYS Review, 2021); “The Seats Stay Unmoved: Theatre, Audience, and Engagement ” (International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences, 2021); “Looking at Knighthood like a Woman: Reading Marie de France’s Lays” (The Renaissance, 2021)

Serenah Minasian

Instructor of English at Illinois State University, Illinois Wesleyan University, Lincoln Land Community College, Des Moines Area Community College, Carl Sandburg College, and Heartland Community College, United States

Research Interests: seventeenth- to nineteenth-century British literature, Romanticism, queer and feminist theory, noncanonicity, pedagogy

Publications: “Queering Romanticism” (Interspaces, 2026); “A Romanticist’s Anthropocene” (Studies in Social Justice, 2025); review of “Our Friend Dorothy” (Feral Feminisms, 2022); “Inked: How a Tattoo Comes to be a Bigger Part of Our World” (Grassroots Writing Research Journal, 2020)

Sharon Smith

Professor, School of English and Interdisciplinary Studies, South Dakota State University, United States

Research Interests: women’s writing in the long eighteenth century, particularly poetry and satire; Gothic literature and film; the Western genre in literature and film.

Selected Publications: “Fierce Allegories: Teaching Anne Finch’s Fables in a Course on Satire” (ABO, 2023); “Black Lives, White Witnesses: An Argument for a Presentist Approach to Teaching Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko” (ABO, 2023); “The Pleasures of Satire in the Fables of Anne Finch” (British Women Satirists in the Long Eighteenth Century, 2022); “‘I Cannot Harm Thee Now’: The Ethic of Satire in Anna Barbauld’s Mock-Heroic Poetry” (European Romantic Review, 2015); “Juba’s ‘Black Face’/Lady Delacour’s ‘Mask’: Plotting Domesticity in Maria Edgeworth’s Belinda” (ECTI, 2015); “The Good Effects of a Whimsical Study: Romance and Women’s Learning in Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote” (Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 2006)

Advisory Board, 2026-2027 

  • 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