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Author Biography

Marilyn Francus is a Professor of English at West Virginia University where she specializes in eighteenth-century British literature and culture, women’s studies, satire, and the history of the novel. She is the author of Monstrous Motherhood: 18th-Century Culture and the Ideology of Domesticity (2012) and The Converting Imagination: Linguistic Theory and Swift’s Satiric Prose (1994), and Marilyn served as editor of The Burney Journal (2006-2021) and as chair of the Jane Austen Society of North America International Visitor Program (2015-2022). Her publications have appeared in journals and collections, and her research has been supported by fellowships from Chawton House Library, William Andrews Clark Library, the Jane Austen Society of North America, and the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Marilyn is currently at work on two projects: the first examines the nexus of motherhood and authorship in the works of Frances Burney, Frances Sheridan, Charlotte Smith, and Mary Wollstonecraft; the second analyzes Jane Austen’s presence in contemporary popular culture.

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