Officers & Board Members

Executive Committee, 2026-2027

Lana Dalley

Co-Chair, 2026-present

Professor of English, California State University, Fullerton, United States

Research Interests:  Women writers, literature and economics, gender and sexuality

Selected Publications: Women’s Economic Writing in the Nineteenth Century (ed., Routledge Press, Fall 2023); Economic Women: Essays on Desire and Dispossession in Nineteenth-Century British Culture (collection co-edited with Jill Rappoport, Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2013); “Structural Scarcity: Women’s Economic Writing and Epistemic Gaslighting” (Victorian Gaslighting, 2026); “Millicent Garrett Fawcett and Popular Political Economy” (Women, Money, and Markets, 1770-1914: Representing the Invisible Hands of the Economy); “The Affective Affordances of Victorian Women: Experiential Criticism and Nell Stevens’s The Victorian and the Romantic” (Neo-Victorian Studies, (2023); “Confronting ‘White Feminism’ in the Victorian Literature Classroom” (Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, 2021).

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)

Caitlin Anderson

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

Lecturer of English at Clayton State University, 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)

Alicia Carroll

Past Chair, 2026-present
Co-Chair, 2023-2026

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)

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)

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)

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

Assistant Professor of English, Culver-Stockton 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