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Jill Heydt-Stevenson’s primary scholarly interests radiate around British and French Romanticism. She is the author of Embodied Experience in British and French Literature, 1778-1814:Ìý Women and Belonging (Cambridge UP, 2025) and Austen’s Unbecoming Conjunctions: Subversive Laughter, Embodied History (Palgrave, 2005), which was the winner of a ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ Provost’s Faculty Achievement Award. She is currently completing a third book: Britain, France, and the Levant: 18th and 19th-Century Engagements between the East and West. She has edited Recognizing the Romantic Novel: New Histories of British Fiction, 1780-1830 (co-edited with Charlotte Sussman; Liverpool UP, 2008) and Last Poems of William Wordsworth: 1821-1850 (Associate Editor, Cornell UP, 1999). She has published on narrative theory, fashion, women’s rights, cosmopolitanism, ruins, and landscape architecture and focused on such authors as Mary Shelley, Austen, Peacock, Wood, Wordsworth, Wollstonecraft, Coleridge, Edgeworth, Burney, de Staël, and Bernardin de St. Pierre. She began her academic career at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where she received a University Teaching Excellence Award. After four years there, she was hired at the University of Colorado, Boulder in the Departments of English and Comparative Literature-Humanities. She now serves full time in the English Department. At Boulder, she also served as the Director of the Center for British and Irish Studies and has been invited to give lectures at the British Women Writers Conference (Texas A&M); Providence College, The University of Zurich, The University of Pennsylvania, the Harvard Romantics Group, the Jane Austen Society of the Southwest (Los Angeles), and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA.

Areas of Specialty

• British Literature
• Cultural Studies
• Gender and Sexuality Studies
• Romanticism