Biography:
Theresa Adams received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and joined Westminster College in 2003. Her research focuses on eighteenth and nineteenth-century British literature, especially women’s writing and laboring-class poetry. Her work has appeared in Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period, Teaching British Laboring-Class Literature of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Victorians, Studies in Romanticism, European Romantic Review, and Essays in Romanticism.
At Westminster, she teaches upper-level classes in literature, including "Romanticism and Gender," "Gothic Literature and Film," and "Crime, Mystery, and Detection in Nineteenth-Century British Literature”; general education courses, such as British Literature Since 1800; and Introduction to Literary Studies, a course that introduces majors to literary criticism and research methods in English. She also teaches Technical and Web Writing, Expository Writing, and Academic Writing.