Graduate Student in English
Princeton University
My relationship with literature was never independent of my interest in issues of gender and sexuality, so a double major in English and Women’s and Gender Studies grew very naturally out of my interests. My undergraduate work in Women’s and Gender Studies prepared me for two major research projects that I pursued during my undergraduate career. I have spent three summers working as a research assistant to a Williams College English professor, helping to prepare a book on the Victorian era debate over women’s rights in England. I also completed an undergraduate English thesis that engaged queer theory to question criticism of Oscar Wilde that privileges biographical information over more explicitly literary concerns. As I pursue a PhD in English, I am continuing to consider the importance and the impact of applying feminist and queer theory to literary studies.