Lillian Nayder

Lillian Nayder is Professor and Chair of English at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. She teaches courses on nineteenth-century British fiction, including “Jane Austen: Then and Now,” “The Brontės,” and “Dickens Revised.” Her seminar topics include “The Arctic Sublime” and “Victorian Crime Fiction.” Her research interests center on Charles and Catherine Dickens, Wilkie Collins, and Victorian sensation fiction. Her most recent book, The Other Dickens: A Life of Catherine Hogarth, was published by Cornell University Press in 2011. She appeared in "Mrs. Dickens' Family Christmas," broadcast on BBC2 television in December 2011.