Brigitte Fielder

Brigitte Fielder is an assistant professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She received her Ph.D. in English with a minor in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Cornell University. She has held research fellowships from the American Antiquarian Society and the Animal Studies Institute – Wesleyan University Animal Studies program. From 2014-2016, she was a member of the Executive Committee of C19: the Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists and currently serves on the society’s Advisory Board. She also sits on the Editorial Board of Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature.