Editorial Office
Nora Gilbert, Editor
Nora Gilbert is a Professor of English at the University of North Texas who jointly specializes in nineteenth-century British literature and classical Hollywood film. She is the author of Better Left Unsaid: Victorian Novels, Hays Code Films, and the Benefits of Censorship (Stanford UP, 2013) and Gone Girls, 1684-1901: Flights of Feminist Resistance in the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Novel (Oxford University Press, 2023), and has published articles in PMLA, Film & History, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, Victorian Review, Eighteenth-Century Life, JNT: The Journal of Narrative Theory, and Screen. She is presently at work on an edited collection (Victorian Gaslighting: Genealogy of an Injustice, co-edited with Diana Bellonby and Tara MacDonald) and a third monograph that is tentatively titled Unwomaned: Hollywood Stardom and the Threat of Female Independence.
Timothy Boswell, Managing Editor
Timothy Boswell has been managing editor at Studies in the Novel since 2012 and in 2014 he earned university-wide recognition for his work at the journal. He earned a Ph.D. in English (creative writing) from the University of North Texas. Dr. Boswell also works as a book editor and ghostwriter and has developed over seventy books for various clients, including fiction, memoirs, and company histories. His own current project, a novel titled The Longest Harvest, is speculative fiction. He is represented by Mark Gottlieb of Trident Media Group.
Ishanika Sharma, Book Review Editor
Ishanika Sharma is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of North Texas. Her areas of research and teaching interests include South Asian literatures, literary theory, postcolonial studies, and the environmental humanities. Her current project draws on insights from postcolonial theorists and psychoanalytic thinkers to examine how narratives articulate the unendingness of catastrophe in 20th-century South Asia. Her research has appeared or is forthcoming in venues such as ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature, Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies, MUSE India, and Research in African Literatures.
Advisory Editors
Paula R. Backscheider, Auburn University
Nancy Bentley, University of Pennsylvania
Daphne Brooks, Yale University
Gregg Crane, University of Michigan
Gaurav Desai, University of Michigan
Annette R. Federico, James Madison University
Nouri Gana, University of California, Los Angeles
Priyamvada Gopal, Cambridge University
Evan Gottlieb, Oregon State University
Dorothy J. Hale, University of California, Berkeley
Amy Hungerford,Yale University
David Kurnick, Rutgers University
Deidre Shauna Lynch, Harvard University
Anne K. Mellor, University of California, Los Angeles
Richard Menke, University of Georgia
Emad Mirmotahari, Duquesne University
Walton Muyumba, Indiana University Bloomington
Timothy Parrish, Virginia Tech
John G. Peters, University of North Texas
Albert J. Rivero, Marquette University
Clifford Siskin, New York University
Stephen Tabachnick, University of Memphis
Ruth Bernard Yeazell, Yale University