Department of English

Dr. Jodi Wyett

Chair, Professor, English Department

Jodi L. Wyett earned her B.A. at DePauw University and both her M.A. and Ph.D. at Wayne State University. She teaches upper- and lower-division courses on women's literature, feminist theory, gender studies, the novel, Jane Austen, and eighteenth-century British literature and culture. She has published on Austen, Frances Brooke, pedagogy, and animals in the long eighteenth century. Dr. Wyett is currently working on a book about women novelists' use of the female quixote trope to address anti-novel discourse as well as a project exploring Frances Burney’s Catholic sympathies as part of an emergent eighteenth-century human rights discourse.

 

Expertise

18th-Century British Literature and Culture, 18th-Century Novel, Women's Literature, Feminist Theory

First Year at Xavier

2000

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Degrees

  • M.A., Ph.D. (Wayne State University);B.A. (DePauw University)