is an Assistant Professor of English at Hostos Community College, part of the City University of New York.

Research Interests

Dr. Milsom’s work covers tourism history, guidebooks, religion, Romanticism, Victorian literature, the Gothic, and musicology.

Current Projects

She is currently completing her first book, which tracks the development of the guidebook genre alongside Catholic Emancipation in Great Britain and Ireland during the late-eighteenth and nineteenth century. For more information, click here.

Teaching

At Hostos, Dr. Milsom teaches literature survey and college writing courses, where she has developed a “Gothic and Horror” curriculum and a poetry elective. She is the advisor for the Hostos English Club. For more biographical information than you could possibly want, click here.

Writing

• An article in Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies: “Assessing and Transgressing: On the Racist Origins of Academic Standardization.”
• An article about teaching Frankenstein in the Keats-Shelley Journal:  “Mary Shelley in the South Bronx.“
• A guest post on John Warner’s Inside Higher Ed blog: “Your Suddenly Online Class Could Actually Be a Relief.”
• A #bigger6 panel review from NASSR 2019: “Beyond the Pale: New Directions in Transnational Romanticisms.” Co-authored with Brian Rejack and Shavera Seneviratne.
• An article in The Rambling: “Tourists of Eden.”
• An article in the Los Angeles Review of Books: “Reading Ruskin in Cataclysmic Times.”
• An article in Studies in Romanticism: “John Chetwode Eustace, Radical Catholicism, and the Travel Guidebook: The Classical Tour (1813) and Its Legacy.“

Peer-Reviewed Publications

• “Assessing and Transgressing: On the Racist Origins of Academic Standardization.” Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies 17.1 (Spring 2021).
• “Mary Shelley in the South Bronx.” Keats Shelley Journal 68 (2019): 148-150.
• “John Chetwode Eustace, Radical Catholicism, and the Travel Guidebook: The Classical Tour (1813) and Its Legacy.” Studies in Romanticism 57:2 (Summer 2018): 219-242.
• “The 19^th-Century Traveler and the 21^st-Century Scholar.” Literature Compass 10:9 (Sept 2013): 725-33.
• “Austen’s Fanny Price, Grateful Negroes, and the Stockholm Syndrome.” Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal 34 (2012): 222-35. (Co-authored with Anne K. Mellor.)
• “Manlier than Mozart: The Anti-Wagnerian Stance of ‘A Wicked Voice.’” Consortium: A Journal of Cross-Disciplinary Inquiry. Boulder: UC Boulder Umbrellagraph Press (2011):185-200.

Education

• Ph.D. in English from UCLA
• M.A. in English from UCLA
• M.S. in Education (Adolescent English Concentration) from Fordham University
• B.A. in English from Yale University