Dr. Jill Campbell

Biography

Jill Campbell is a Professor of English, focusing on 18th-century British literature, including novels, drama, poetry, essays, and familiar letters. Her research interests involve women's writing and the construction of gender in literature, which forms part of a broader inquiry into the complex interactions between literary experience and social forms. She is the author of 'Natural Masques: Gender Identity in Fielding’s Plays and Novels' (1995) and is currently completing a book on satirical portraits and self-representations of figures such as Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Lord Hervey, and Alexander Pope. A portion of this work, titled 'Lady Mary Wortley Montagu “Glass Revers’d” Female Old Age,' was featured in 'Defects: Engendering the Modern Body'. Her course offerings include both undergraduate and graduate classes, such as 'Major English Poets', 'English Comic Drama 1660-1800', the 'Eighteenth-Century Novel', and 'The Augustan Age'. Campbell is actively engaged in discussing practical pedagogy in teaching reading, writing, and interpretive skills to a diverse range of ages.

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