Rebecca Nesvet, Associate Professor of English, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay earned her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 2014. Her work on James Malcolm Rymer, the creator of Sweeney Todd, appears in Nineteenth Century Studies, Victorian Network, Notes and Queries, and Scholarly Editing: The Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing. On other topics, Nesvet has published in journals including The Keats-Shelley Journal, Essays in Romanticism, Women’s Writing, Literature Compass, The Review of English Studies, Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, and The Shakespearean International Yearbook. Edited collections to which Nesvet has recently contributed include Women’s Literary Networks and Romanticism: “A Tribe of Authoresses” (Liverpool University Press 2018), Teaching Victorian Literature in the Twenty-First Century (Macmillan 2017),Jean-Jacques Rousseau and British Romanticism (Bloomsbury 2017), and forthcoming volumes on the Victorian vampire (Routledge) and Oscar Wilde (Salem Press).
She has also taught at the University of Gloucestershire as a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing. Her research on Rymer’s A Mystery in Scarlet was made possible by an Everett Helm short-term travel fellowship at the Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington in Spring 2018.
Last modified 13 July 2019