Matthew L. Reznicek is an Assistant Professor of Nineteenth-Century British and Irish Literature at Creighton University, where he teaches courses on Romanticism, Victorian Literature, Opera and the Novel, Poverty and the Novel, and Gender in Fin-De-Siècle Novels. He earned his PhD at the Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland. He has published widely on women writers like Maria Edgeworth, Sydney Owenson, and Kate O'Brien.