Overview

The primary responsibilities of Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom's assistant editors are to create and prepare content for online publication, including website maintenance and development, developing new topic clusters, hosting conversations, and seeking out potential guest hosts for Zoomcasts.

Assistant Editor Biographies

Kira Braham, PhD (Assistant Professor of English at Lycoming College) teaches courses in British literature, gender studies, global Anglophone literature, SF/fantasy, and composition. Her current book project, “The Active Life: Work Ethics in Victorian Literature,” explores the diverse ways in which Victorian authors conceptualized the meaning and value of work. Her essays have appeared in Victorian Literature and Culture, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Literature Compass, and The Gissing Journal. She has also published two lesson plans with UVC, one on The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole and another on The History of Mary Prince. Pronouns: she/her.

Christine Choi, PhD (Assistant Professor of English, Hostos Community College, CUNY) teaches courses in English composition and Women’s and Gender Studies. She also serves as Coordinator of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at Hostos, and will commence a three-year term as General Co-Editor of WSQ, formerly Women's Studies Quarterly, in June 2026. A specialist in Victorian studies, her research explores noncanonical women novelists and sensation fiction, with a particular focus on feminist analyses of how gender and marriage are represented and contested in the Victorian novel. Her work has been published in Victorian Studies, Victorian Popular Fictions, and Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies. Pronouns: she/her.

Kate Nesbit, PhD (Associate Professor of English, Central College) teaches courses in 19th- and 20th-century British and world literature, as well as in sound and media studies. Her research considers the politics of voice, sound, and listening in nineteenth-century British literature. You can find her work published in ELH, Victorian Literature and Culture, Victorian Poetry, and elsewhere. Her first book, Willful Listeners: Reading Aloud and the Politics of Attention from Austen to Audiobooks, is forthcoming in Fall 2026. Kate helps lead NAVSA's Teaching Caucus, and she also often publishes and presents on pedagogy and Victorian studies. Pronouns: she/her.