Vera Foley

Vera Foley is a faculty member at Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) specializing in nineteenth-century literature by women. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where her research focused on American women writers of the antebellum and Civil War eras.

Her academic interests span interdisciplinary areas, including

• American studies
• Gender, women, and sexuality studies
• Environmental studies
• Folk and fairy tales