Issue 15.1 (Spring 2019)

Contributor Biographies

Jillian M. Hess is an Assistant Professor of English at Bronx Community College, CUNY. She is currently working on a study of Romantic and Victorian commonplace books.

Elissa Myers is a Ph.D. candidate in English at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her dissertation, entitled Crafting Girlhoods, analyzes nineteenth century girls' education through craft forms including homemade periodicals and textiles. Her broader interests occupy the intersection between children’s literature, the history of education, and Victorian gender studies.

Sara Tavela is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Misericordia University in Northeastern Pennsylvania. She has previously published on Jane Austen in Persuasions, and her research interests include the novel and its intersections with discourses of mind and body. She’s currently at work on a book manuscript that explores the affective labor of self-management emphasized for female heroines in the long eighteenth-century novel.