Anna Gibson is a teaching assistant professor of English and Coordinator of the Introduction to Humanities & Social Sciences Program at North Carolina State University.
Her research focuses on nineteenth-century British literature, particularly novels of the Victorian period. Her work considers narrative form and formalism, novel theory, psychology, visual culture, critical theory, and the digital humanities. Before joining the faculty at NC State in August 2018, she spent four years as an assistant professor of English at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA. She holds a Ph.D. in English from Duke University. Gibson is co-director of the peer-reviewed online Digital Dickens Notes Project, which digitizes and explores the Working Notes Charles Dickens kept for his novels in order to deepen our understanding of Victorian serial form. Her essays have been published in venues such as Novel: A Forum on Fiction and Narrative, where her 2017 essay "Charlotte Brontë's First Person" won honorable mention for the North American Victorian Studies Association's Donald Grey Prize for the Best Essay in Victorian Studies. She has work forthcoming in Victorianographies, The Routledge Companion to Sensation Fiction, and Digital Dickens (White Rose Press). She is currently at work on two book projects: Novel Formation: Psychology and the Victorian Novel examines the capacities of novel form for representing and reshaping human psychology in the nineteenth century. A co-authored monograph (with Adam Grener), Dickens in Process: Seriality and the Novel examines Dickens's novels alongside the work of other Victorian serial novelists to consider how the material formats and temporal parameters of seriality shaped the Victorian novel. Anna Gibson is a member of the North Carolina State University's Academy of Outstanding Teachers, having won both the 2023 NC State Outstanding Teacher Award and the 2023 Alumni Association Outstanding Teacher Award. Originally from the small village of Abbotts Ann in Hampshire, England, Gibson holds degrees from the University of Southern Mississippi (B.A.), Exeter University (M.A.), and Duke University (Ph.D.), where she was a Mellon ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellow and recipient of the Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching. She currently lives in Durham, North Carolina. |
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