Jessica Cook

Associate Professor of Instruction & M.A. Advisor

CONTACT

Office: CPR 358-H
Phone: 813-974-2193
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Curriculum Vitae

BIO

Dr. Jessica Cook’s research and teaching specialties include 18th-and 19th-century British literature, women’s literature, and place studies. She has published articles on the connection between 18th-century novelist Samuel Richardson and the late 17th-century early feminist writer Mary Astell, and the role of place-making in the 18th-century poet Mary Leapor’s work. She also co-edited the essay collection, The Circuit of Apollo: Eighteenth-Century Women’s Tributes to Women (University of Delaware Press, 2019), with Laura Runge.

At ±«Óãtv, Dr. Cook teaches undergraduate courses on the 18th-century British novel, 18th-and 19th-century British literature, women’s literature, crime fiction, and literary methodology. She has also taught courses on Jane Austen and Harry Potter for the ±«Óãtv in London study abroad program. In addition to teaching undergraduates, she advises graduate students in the English MA program.