Anna J BreckeDr. Anna J. Brecke is a Lecturer at the Rhode Island School of Design. Her Ph.D. was from the University of Rhode Island. Her research focuses on gender and popular media in the 19th century and today. Her specific interests include non-canonical 19t-century women's writing, the periodic press and serialized narrative, television and the gendered body, and supernatural/speculative fiction. Her work can be found in The Victorian, Victorians Institute Journal Digital Annex and Media Report to Women. She is a co-founder of the Mary Elizabeth Braddon Association and reviews editor of the Victorian Popular Fiction Association journal Victorian Popular Fictions. She also works as an area chair in Women's and Gender Studies for the Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association and can be heard discussing Mary Elizabeth Braddon's literary legacy on episode 4.5 of The Victorian Scribblers podcast. Read More Read Less