Assistant Professor of English
Brianna earned her PhD in English (2026) from the University of Georgia and her M.A. in English from Georgia College & State University (2021). She also holds a B.A. in English from the University of Georgia (2019). She specializes in Nineteenth-Century British literature, primarily English Romanticism and Victorian literature, as well as narrative theory, the history of the British novel, sound studies, and women’s writing. She has taught courses in composition and British literature. Her publications include “‘Till you hear me’: Sonic Suffering in Ellen Wood’s East Lynne” in the forthcoming 2026 issue of Studies in the Novel and “Playing with Noise: Anne Elliot, the Narrator, and Sound in Jane Austen’s and Adrian Shergold’s Persuasion” in The Corinthian: The Journal of Student Research at Georgia College (2020). Her article “Speaking for the ‘Growing Good of the World’: A Female Gossip Revolution in George Eliot’s Middlemarch” is currently under revision for Nineteenth-Century Literature. When she is not teaching or reading for class, she can be found playing with goats, drinking coffee, or reading historical fiction.
Hebrews 12:1 “Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us.”
