Emma Plaskitt

Personal bio
Emma Plaskitt is a graduate of McGill University, Montreal (BA 1st class Honours) and Merton College, Oxford (MPhil, DPhil), where she wrote her doctoral thesis on the treatment of gender and reputation in selected eighteenth-century fiction. Since 1994 she has taught English literature 1640-1901 for various Oxford colleges, including Brasenose, Worcester, Somerville, and St Hugh's. Having worked for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, where she was responsible for writing many articles on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century women writers, she now focuses on teaching for Stanford, the SCIO Study Abroad Programme based at Wycliffe Hall in Oxford, and for Oxford University's Department of Continuing Education. A specialist in the literature of the long eighteenth century, her research interests include the Victorian novel, particularly the gothic novel and novel of sensation. In 2010 she was awarded the Stanford BOSP Award for Teaching Excellence.

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