Kirsten Saxton


Kirsten Saxton is a professor of English at Mills College in Oakland, California where she is also the director of the MA of English.

Career

Saxton writes about 18th century literature and culture, early British women writers, and the history of the novel in English, focusing on intersections between literature, criminality and sexuality in relation to gender.
Recently, Saxton wrote the scholarly introduction to the British Library re-issue of the detective novel The Incredible Crime by Lois Austen-Leigh which had been out of print since 1931.
Saxton's Narratives of Women and Murder in England was cited as a "compelling and provocative study... to be welcomed for the light it begins to shed on one of our enduring objects of cultural fascination."
In 2000, Saxton co-edited with Rebecca P. Bocchicchio, a volume of essays on the work of Eliza Haywood which was hailed as marking a "pivotal moment in Haywood scholarship".
Saxton is an editor for, and is currently co-chair of the of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.

Publications

  • Adapting the Eighteenth Century: A Handbook of Pedagogies and Practices
  • "Introduction". The Incredible Crime. Lois Austin-Leigh.
  • Narratives of Women and Murder in England
  • The Passionate Fictions of Eliza Haywood: Essays On her Life and Work. Editor.

Selected awards

Teaching

Selected research fellowships