Shoshannah Bryn Jones SquareDr. Bryn Jones Square is a faculty member at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Canada. She received her PhD from the University of Oxford in 2017, after which she held a Research Affiliateship with the University of Manitoba Institute for the Humanitis while also working as a Postdoctoral Fellow. She is currently a faculty member in the Department of English at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Surrey, BC. Her research project, “Books, Brains, and Benevolence: An Interdisciplinary Study of Empathy,” explores empathy from the perspectives of literature, neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, engineering, economics, physics, mathematics, and more. Bryn’s articles, “The ‘victim of too much loving’: Perdita Verney’s Self-Destructive Sympathy in Mary Shelley’s The Last Man” and “‘[A] mad excess of love’”: Hyper-Sympathy, Fidelity, and Suicidality in Mary Shelley’s Falkner” were recently published in Studies in the Literary Imagination and Essays in Romanticism respectively. Read More Read Less