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Summer Star is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at San Francisco State University. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara (2012). Her research focuses on Victorian literature, particularly the intersection of formal literary dynamics and mental/spiritual awakenings, prosody studies, and aesthetic/ethical theory.
Her current book manuscript, Mother of Invention: The Aesthetics of Necessity in Mid-Victorian Literature, explores economic habits in novels by George Eliot, Charlotte Brontë, and Elizabeth Gaskell, analyzing how scarcity and necessity shape creativity and imagination. She teaches courses on Victorian poetry and novels, emphasizing innovative pedagogical approaches to poetic meter.
Her publications include articles on Jane Austen, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and co-authorship of Oxford’s Year’s Work in English Studies. She actively contributes to Victorian literary scholarship and pedagogical innovation.
