Anna Gibson is an Assistant Professor of English 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, book history, and the digital humanities. Before joining the faculty at NC State in August 2018 as an Assistant Teaching Professor, she spent four years as Assistant Professor of English at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA. She was promoted to Associate Teaching Professor at NC State in 2025, and then transitioned to a tenure-track position beginning August 2025. She holds a Ph.D. in English from Duke University.

Gibson is co-director of the NEH-funded Dickens Notes project, a peer-reviewed annotated scholarly edition of the working notes Charles Dickens kept for his novels. Her essays have been published in venues such as Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Victoriographies, and Narrative. 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 is currently finishing a book project co-authored with Dickens Notes co-editor Adam Grener. The Novel in Process: Charles Dickens and Serial Form considers how the material formats and temporal parameters of seriality shaped the Victorian novel form.

Gibson is a member of the North Carolina State University's Academy of Outstanding Teachers and has 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 (BA), Exeter University (MA), and Duke University (PhD), 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.

Contact Anna Gibson via her university website here.