लेखक: Katherine Skaris

Katherine Skaris received her BA degree from Stony Brook University, USA, and her Master”s in English from Queens College in New York in 2011. She completed her doctoral degree at Durham University, UK, in January 2016, supervised by Stephen Regan and Dr Simon James. Her PhD thesis explores the portrayal of women”s labour in nineteenth-and-early twentieth-century American and British fiction. Her most recent publication was the article “Affective Labouring in Catherine L. Pirkis” The Experiences of Loveday Brooke: Lady Detective”, published in The Victorian in 2014. Her current research focuses on literary and cultural histories of women and their labours in America and Britain. She specializes in nineteenth-century American literature, Victorian literature, and women”s writing. She is currently teaching part-time for the English Studies Department at Durham University.