Dr. Jodi Wyett

English Associate Professor
English Graduate Program Associate Professor
Honors Programs Associate Professor

Phone: 513-745-3158 Fax: 513-745-3065 ML#: 4446 Email: wyett@xavier.edu Office Location: 214 Hinkle Hall     Degrees: BA, MA, Ph.D. (Wayne State University) First Year at XU: 2000

Areas of Expertise:
18th-Century British Literature & Culture, 18th-Century Novel, Women's Literature, Feminist Theory

Other Information:

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, cultural studies, the novel, and eighteenth-century British literature. She is also interested in representations of animals in fiction and speculative fiction, particularly feminist utopias. She has published on lapdogs in eighteenth-century literature and culture and her articles on eighteenth-century novelist Frances Brooke have appeared in journals such as Eighteenth-Century Fiction and The Eighteenth-Century Novel. Dr. Wyett’s current research focuses on eighteenth-century women readers, investigating the significance of the figure of the woman reader for novels in relation to women's actual reading practices.