Department of English: Katie Gemmill “Novel Conversations, 1740-1817”

Katie Gemmill’s research and teaching focus on literature of the eighteenth century and Romantic period in England. Her dissertation, “Novel Conversations, 1740-1817,” examines how and why conventions for mapping speech on the page emerged over the course of the eighteenth century. Her current and past projects all aim to forge communication between editorial and theoretical approaches to novel studies: she has published articles on Frances Burney’s French archive and on Jane Austen’s manuscripts, and she has worked on a number of textual editing projects through The Burney Centre and the Yale Johnson Edition. She also regularly writes criticism for popular reviews such as Public Books and Open Letters Monthly.