Madelaine Pope is a first-year PhD Candiate in English and a TA for Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies. She earned her MA in Literary and Textual Studies from Bowling Green State University in 2019. Her primary research area is 19th-century British Literature, focusing on women writers, and her MA thesis is titled "Discipline and Surveillance of Non-Docile Heroines in Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South and 'The Poor Clare' and Sheridan Le Fanu's The Rose and the Key."