Judith Pascoe is the author of four books, the most recent being On the Bullet Train with Emily Brontë, which she began as a Fulbright Lecturer in Japan and completed as a Guggenheim Fellow. Her book The Sarah Siddons Audio Files received the Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History from the American Society for Theatre Research. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Hudson Review, The American Scholar, and Public Books. She holds a BS in Biology from Duke University, an MA in Creative Writing from Syracuse University, and a PhD in English from the University of Pennsylvania.
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Judith Pascoe, the George Mills Harper Professor of English at Florida State University, lives in Tallahassee, Florida.
Credit Where It’s Due
Embroidered name: Ava Savitsky.
Girl in storm: “Wandering Catherine” seal print by artist Junko Ichihara for Taeko Tamura’s annotated translation of Wuthering Heights.
Gesturing actress: Image from Attic Miscellany, Theatrical Portraiture No. 6, 1790.
Hand and hummingbird: Green-tailed Trainbearer in the George Loddiges hummingbird collection.
Hair images: Created by the London caricaturist and engraver Matthew Darly in the 1770s.
Overall website design: Meghan Lambert.