• 513-745-3158
  • 240 Hinkle Hall
  • ML 4446

Dr. Jodi Wyett

Professor, English Department; Director of Medical and Health Humanities

Jodi L. Wyett teaches upper- and lower-division courses on gender, film, the novel, creative nonfiction, narrative medicine, Jane Austen, and eighteenth-century British literature and culture. She has published articles on Austen, Frances Brooke, pedagogy, and animals in the long eighteenth century as well as a book about eighteenth-century British women novelists' use of the female quixote trope to address anti-novel discourse, Quixotic Authority: The Female Quixote and the Woman Writer, Lennox to Austen (University of Delaware Press, 2026). Dr. Wyett’s most recent work blends creative nonfiction with literary historiography, focusing especially on the writing of Jane Austen and Frances Burney.

  • 513-745-3158
  • 240 Hinkle Hall
  • ML 4446

Jodi L. Wyett teaches upper- and lower-division courses on gender, film, the novel, creative nonfiction, narrative medicine, Jane Austen, and eighteenth-century British literature and culture. She has published articles on Austen, Frances Brooke, pedagogy, and animals in the long eighteenth century as well as a book about eighteenth-century British women novelists' use of the female quixote trope to address anti-novel discourse, Quixotic Authority: The Female Quixote and the Woman Writer, Lennox to Austen (University of Delaware Press, 2026). Dr. Wyett’s most recent work blends creative nonfiction with literary historiography, focusing especially on the writing of Jane Austen and Frances Burney.

First Year at Xavier
2000

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

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