Karen Bourrier is Professor of English at the University of Calgary, where she specializes in Victorian literature and culture, women’s writing, disability studies, and the digital humanities. She is the author of Victorian Bestseller: The Life of Dinah Craik (U Michigan P, 2019) and The Measure of Manliness: Disability and Masculinity in the mid-Victorian Novel (U Michigan P, 2015). Her articles have appeared in venues including ELH, Victorian Studies, Victorian Literature and Culture and Cultural Analytics.

With Susan Brown (Canada Research Chair, University of Guelph) and Anthony Mandal (University of Cardiff), she is currently at work on the nineteenth-century volume of a four-volume, data-driven history of women’s writing in the British Isles, under contract with Cambridge University Press.

A second book project, tentatively titled Through the Looking Glass: The Lives of the Girls and Women who Knew Lewis Carroll, looks at how the new presence of girls in nineteenth-century Oxford transformed art, literature, and education in tandem with liberal reforms at the Oxford University and beyond.

Her CV is available here.