Rebecca Nesvet, Professor of English, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, is the author of James Malcolm Rymer, Penny Fiction, and the Family (Routledge, 2024), the first monograph about the penny dreadful author who invented Sweeney Todd. She is also a Technical Director at COVE Editions.
Her work on James Malcolm Rymer also appears in Nineteenth Century Studies, Victorian Network, Notes and Queries, and Scholarly Editing: The Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing. On other topics, Nesvet has published in journals including The Keats-Shelley Journal, Essays in Romanticism, Women’s Writing, Literature Compass, The Review of English Studies, Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, and The Shakespearean International Yearbook. Edited collections to which Nesvet has contributed include Women’s Literary Networks and Romanticism: "A Tribe of Authoresses" (Liverpool University Press, 2018), Teaching Victorian Literature in the Twenty-First Century (Macmillan, 2017), Jean-Jacques Rousseau and British Romanticism (Bloomsbury, 2017), and volumes on the Victorian vampire (Routledge) and Oscar Wilde (Salem Press).
She has also taught at the University of Gloucestershire as a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing. Her research on Rymer’s A Mystery in Scarlet was made possible by an Everett Helm short-term travel fellowship at the Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington in Spring 2018. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Last modified 13 July 2019