Dr Jennifer Cooke is Senior Lecturer in English at Loughborough University and chair of the Gendered Lives Research Group. She researches and writes about contemporary literature, critical theory, feminism, theories of affect and emotion, and gender, queer and trans theory. She is the editor of a forthcoming edited collection, The New Feminist Literary Studies (CUP, 2020) and is currently working on a monograph on work and mothering in contemporary literature.