Dr. Kristen Pond
Associate Professor Margarett Root Browning Chair in Robert Browning and Victorian Studies Interim First-Year Writing Director
Interests
19th-Century British Literature
Studies in the novel
Gender studies
Narrative Form
Education
Ph.D. University of North Carolina Greensboro
M.A. University of North Carolina Greensboro
B.A. St. Andrews Presbyterian College
Bio
Kristen Pond's specializes in Victorian studies with an emphasis on the novel. Her research focuses on the development of the novel, the rhetoric and ethics of sympathy, and gender studies. Her work appears in Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Victorian Literature and Culture, Nineteenth-Century Literature, and Victorian Review. Her current book project examines the figure of the stranger in Victorian literature and culture.