The 19th Century Research Seminar (19CRS) joins with Baylor University’s English department, the Armstrong Browning Library, and other academic departments of Baylor University provide an interdisciplinary forum for faculty and graduate students in and outside of Baylor to present original research in all areas of nineteenth-century studies. Every academic year 19CRS hosts a series of monthly lectures. Scholars of all disciplines are encouraged to present research that furthers our understanding of the 19th century.
See below for information about the 19CRS committee:
Faculty Committee Members
Kristen Pond is an Associate Professor of English at Baylor University and the current coordinator of the 19th Century Research Seminar. Her research and teaching focus on the development of the novel, the rhetoric and ethics of sympathy, and gender studies. Her work appears in Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Victorian Literature and Culture, Nineteenth-Century Literature, and Victorian Review. Her book Strangers and the Enchantment of Space in Victorian Fiction, 1830-1865 (Routledge, 2023) examines the figure of the stranger in Victorian literature and culture.
Tara C. Foley is a Senior Lecturer in English at Baylor University. She specializes in nineteenth-century American literature; specifically, her research interests include literature and urban planning, medical humanities, and literature of the American West. Her work has appeared in The Howellsianand Enarratio: Exposition, Recounting, and Conversation. Her current book project analyzes the contributions of American writers to urban planning initiatives in major American cities at the end of the nineteenth century.
Jennifer L. Hargrave is an Assistant Professor of English at Baylor University. She specializes in British Romanticism and its global entanglements. Her research also encompasses literature of the long eighteenth century as well as women’s and gender studies. Her current book project recovers the history of intellectual exchanges between the British and Chinese empires, showing how a literary examination of Anglo-Sino relations produces a new narrative of interimperial exchanges premised on intellectual curiosity as well as geopolitical gain. She has published articles in Eighteenth-Century Studies, European Romantic Review, Nineteenth-Century Contexts: An Interdisciplinary Journal, and SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900.
Gabrielle Miller
Graduate Student Committee Members
Savannah Chorn is a PhD student in English at Baylor University, where she also earned her Master’s degree. Before coming to Waco, she graduated from Lee University with her BA. She is primarily interested in nineteenth-century British literature, religion, Victorian medievalism, and postsecularism, with an emphasis on Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Reilly L. Fitzpatrick is a Teacher of Record and Ph.D. student at Baylor University. She has a Master’s degree in English from Azusa Pacific University and an MLitt in Romantic and Victorian Literature with a concentration in Women, Writing, and Gender from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. She studied at the University of Oxford as an undergraduate where she was awarded the de Jager Prize for research and writing and recently received the Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award here at Baylor. Her research interests include feminist, gender, and queer theory as well as education and social reform in the work of British women writers of the long nineteenth century.
Hance Winingham entered the PhD program at Baylor University in the fall of 2021. Before coming to Baylor, he received a Master of Arts in Political Theory from the University of Essex as well as a Bachelor of Science in Political Science from Texas A&M University. Following his graduation from these programs, Hance spent time as an education policy intern for research institutes in both Austin, Texas, and Washington D.C.
Hance’s primary areas of research include American Political Development, American Political Thought, and political theory more generally. He is currently interested in researching presidential politics and America’s separation of powers system.
Laurel Samuelson
Sarah Riley
Rebeca Blemur
Honorary Members of Leadership Team
Joshua King is Professor of English at Baylor University, where he also directs the Environmental Humanities Minor. He founded the 19CRS in 2010 and serves as an honorary member of its leadership team. He is author of Imagined Spiritual Communities in Britain’s Age of Print (2015) and coeditor, with Winter Jade Werner, of Constructing Nineteenth-Century Religion: Literary, Historical, and Religious Studies in Dialogue (2019). He has published numerous journal articles and book chapters on poetics, religion, print culture, and ecotheological and environmental perspectives in the works of William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keble, John Henry Newman, Alfred Tennyson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Matthew Arnold, Christina Rossetti, and Gerard Manley Hopkins, among others.