Jessica Valdez

Dr. Jessica Valdez is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Louisiana State University's College of Humanities and Social Sciences. She holds a PhD from Johns Hopkins University and previously taught at the University of East Anglia and University of Hong Kong.

Research Expertise: Her scholarship examines 19th-century British literature through lenses of empire, migration, and media studies. Her book 'Plotting the News in the Victorian Novel' analyzes how novelists functioned as early media theorists.

Current Project: 'Despots and Democrats: China and America in British Literature, 1832-1901' explores intersecting imaginaries of the United States and China in Victorian writing.