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Dr. Justine Pizzo is a Lecturer in British Literature at the University of Southampton, specializing in Victorian literature from 1837 to 1939. Her research focuses particularly on the Victorian novel, with a special emphasis on female characterization and the intersections of literature and climate. Currently, she is editing a new Norton Critical Edition of Thomas Hardy's 'Far from the Madding Crowd' (1874). Dr. Pizzo's current research also investigates literary atmospheres such as fog, mist, and rain haze in Victorian fiction, alongside a monograph provisionally titled 'Character and Climate: Women and Atmosphere in Victorian Fiction'. In her academic role, she convenes both undergraduate and postgraduate modules, including 'The Novel', 'Fantasists, Fanatics, Reformers: British Literature in the Nineteenth Century', and 'The Origins of the Climate Crisis: Ecology in Victorian Literature'. She is passionate about supervising a range of students at various levels who focus on nineteenth-century literature and culture, while also paying attention to the works of influential and lesser-known women writers of the time.