Officers & Board Members

Executive Committee, 2023-2024

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)

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)

Roxanne Eberle

Emerita Chair, 2023-present
Co-Chair, 2016-2023

Associate Professor of English, University of Georgia

Research Interests: Romantic literature, nineteenth-century studies, and feminist literary criticism

Selected Publications: “The Correspondence of Amelia Alderson Opie: A Digital Archive” (ed., 2017-present); Women and Romanticism, 1790-1830 (ed., Routledge, 5 vols., 2006); Chastity and Transgression in Women’s Writing, 1792-1897: Interrupting the Harlot’s Progress (Palgrave, 2002); “The Sociability of Protest: Amelia Alderson Opie and the Norwich Cabinet of 1794” (European Romantic Review, 2021); “Letitia Elizabeth Landon’s ‘Minstrel Annals’ and the Romantic Literature Classroom” (Pedagogy, 2018); “Amelia and John Opie: Conjugal Sociability and Romanticism’s Professional Arts” (Studies in Romanticism, 2014)

Doreen Thierauf

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

Assistant 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); “Guns and Blood: Reading The Tenant of Wildfell Hall in the Age of #MeToo” (Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, 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); “The Hidden Abortion Plot in George Eliot’s Middlemarch” (Victorian Studies, 2014)

Caitlin Anderson

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

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)

Courtney Hoffman

Director of Communications, 2020-present

Academic Professional for Undergraduate Research Writing, Georgia Institute of Technology

Research Interests: eighteenth-century literature, gender and sexuality, affect theory, temporality, novel theory

Publications: “Exploring Data Visualization: Time, Emotion, and Epistolarity in Frances Brooke’s The History of Emily Montague” (Data Visualization in Enlightenment Literature and Culture, 2021); “‘Now I Am a Man!’: Performing Sexual Violence in the National Theatre Production of Frankenstein” (Global Frankenstein, 2018); “How to Be a Woman in the Highlands: A Feminist Portrayal of Scotland in Outlander” (The Cinematic Eighteenth Century, 2017)

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)

Association Board, 2023-2024 

Elected Members 

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

Ad-Hoc Members 

  • Hannah Blanning (BWWC 2024 Graduate Student Organizer, UC Boulder) 
  • Jillian Heydt-Stevenson (BWWC 2024 Faculty Organizer, UC Boulder) 
  • Katherine Malone (BWWC 2025 Faculty Organizer, South Dakota State) 
  • Lisa Ann Robertson (BWWC 2025 Faculty Organizer, University of South Dakota) 
  • Sharon Smith (BWWC 2025 Faculty Organizer, South Dakota State) 
  • Jessica Tebo (BWWC 2024 Graduate Student Organizer, UC Boulder) 

Advisory Board, 2023-2024 

  • Susan Brown
  • 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