Vera R. Foley

Vera R. Foley is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at St. Olaf College. Her work focuses on nineteenth-century women's literature, with interdisciplinary connections to American studies, gender and sexuality studies, environmental studies, and folkloric traditions.

• Education: Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, specializing in American women writers of the antebellum and Civil War eras.
• Contact: foley9@stolaf.edu

Research Interests

• Nineteenth-century American women's writing
• Intersections of gender, environment, and folklore
• Sexuality studies in historical contexts