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Betty A. Schellenberg is a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of English at Simon Fraser University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Her research focuses on 18th-century literary culture, manuscript practices, and digital humanities. She has pioneered studies on literary coteries, Bluestocking networks, and the materiality of print culture.
Her work bridges archival research and digital innovation through projects like the Manuscript Verse Miscellanies, 1700-1820 database and the Elizabeth Montagu Correspondence Online. She co-edits special issues in journals such as Eighteenth-Century Life and Huntington Library Quarterly, emphasizing women’s contributions to literary history.
Teaching spans undergraduate and graduate courses on topics like poetry’s role in privilege, women writers, and print culture history. She has supervised numerous PhD students researching 18th-century literature and digital humanities.
Awards include Simon Fraser’s Distinguished University Professor title and Royal Society of Canada Fellowship. Her labs/teams collaborate with SFU’s Digital Humanities Innovation Lab on projects combining archival analysis with digital tools.
