English professor, book historian. 19th C, mainly. I wrote Selling Sexual Knowledge (CUP, 2025). Now working on MANUFACTURING LITERATURE and a few smaller proje

Action without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse (Chicago, 2025) • The Barbara Johnson Collective (Northwestern, 2026) Fresno, Silver Spring •

Writing about 18th & 19th c. British poetry, environmental humanities, and the histories of science & design. Doing her best. she/her elizabethgiardina.com

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