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Jessica Richard is Associate Professor of English at Wake Forest University, specializing in eighteenth-century British fiction and cultural history. Her scholarship examines representations of risk, chance, and exploration in literary works from the Enlightenment era.
Dr. Richard's research investigates gambling as cultural practice in works by Jane Austen and contemporaries, analyzing how games of chance metaphorically represent social mobility and economic uncertainty. Additional work explores polar exploration narratives in Romantic literature and their relationship to scientific discovery.
She co-edits the Maria Edgeworth Letters Project and founded The 18th-Century Common, a public humanities initiative. Her teaching includes courses on British literature, the novel, Jane Austen, and the Age of Johnson.
Recent publications analyze lottery mania in eighteenth-century England and its fictional representations. Her editorial work includes a Broadview edition of Samuel Johnson's 'Rasselas'.
