Context and Conversations Panel Discussion

Jeffrey E. Jackson is a professor of the “long nineteenth century” in British literature. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on British Romanticism, Gothic fiction, Victorian literature, literary theory, serial fiction, the rise of the nineteenth-century novel in Britain, terrorism in British literature and popular culture, and literature-to-film adaptation. He has published articles on such topics as Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot’s Middlemarch, Alfred Tennyson’s Idylls of the King, and teaching with film in the literature class. Spring 2023 he will be offering a new special topics course on revivals of the Arthurian legend and materials during the Victorian period.

Katherine Parkin, Ph.D., is professor of History and the Jules Plangere Jr endowed chair in American Social History at Monmouth University (New Jersey). She is the author of “Food is Love: Food Advertising and Gender Roles in Modern America” (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005) and “Women at the Wheel: A Century of Buying, Driving, and Fixing Cars” (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017), each of which won the Emily Toth Award for best book in women’s studies and popular culture. She is also the author of nearly twenty articles. Her teaching and research interests include the history of women and gender, sexuality, advertising, consumerism, and Native American women and children. She was awarded The American Philosophical Society’s 2024 Phillips Fund for Native American Research grant. She has been interviewed for magazine, newspaper, television, radio, and podcast including The Economist, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Slow Burn: Roe v. Wade.