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Juliet Shields is a Professor of English at the University of Washington, affiliated with the College of Arts & Sciences. Her research focuses on 18th- and 19th-century Anglophone Atlantic literature, transnationalism, and women’s writing. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania (2004) and has held prestigious fellowships including a Fulbright Scholarship to Scotland (2016-17). Shields has authored several monographs, including Nation and Migration (2016) and Scottish Women’s Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century (2021). Her work explores intersections of nationality, gender, race, and migration in British and American literature.
Education: Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania (2004); M.A., University of Pennsylvania (1999); B.A., University of California, Irvine (1998).
Research interests include diaspora studies, postcolonialism, and the history of the novel. Shields has been recognized with awards such as the Andrew W. Mellon Digital Humanities Fellowship (2021) and the University of Washington Royalty Research Fund Award (2013). She has supervised numerous doctoral students and contributed to editorial projects like Scottish Women Writers on the Web. Her courses cover Romanticism, transatlantic literature, and the literature of slavery.
Key publications include studies on Mary Prince’s History of Mary Prince (2021), Victorian periodicals, and Scottish women’s literary traditions. Shields has also presented widely at international conferences and serves on academic boards such as the Modern Language Association and the International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures.
