Emma Walker
I study imperialism, sex, and chronic illness. My book project examines the ways imperialism creates and performs “ruination,” specifically using women’s bodies.
recent publications
“Queer and Present Danger: Freakery and Sapphism in Maria Edgeworth’s Belinda.” Eighteenth-Century Fiction, vol. 34, issue s1, Fall 2022, pp. 547-570.
Co-authored with Sofia Prado Huggins. “Visions: The Dance Most of All: Envisioning an Embodied Eighteenth-Century Studies,” ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830: Vol. 11: Iss. 2, Article 1. http://doi.org/10.5038/2157-7129.11.2.1289. Special Issue of ABO: Women in the Arts, 1660-1830, Co-edited with Dr. Mona Narain and Sofia Prado Huggins.
service & profession
Newsletter Editor, Aphra Behn Society, 2023-24
Co-chair, British Women Writers Association Conference Organizing Committee, 2019-20
Co-chair, British Studies Interest Group, Texas Christian University, 2017-18
Reader, Stillhouse Press, George Mason University, 2016
Susannah Sanford McDaniel 