Dr. Crystal Veronie is Instructor of English at The University of Alabama where she teaches English composition, Science Writing, English Literature, British Literature, and Native American Literature. Her research focuses on the crosscurrents between mid-nineteenth-century British literature, gender, and medicine at a critical juncture in the emergence of gynecology as a specialized branch of medicine. Her dissertation Mid-Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers and Resistive Embodiment, engages with the methodologies of disability studies and health humanities to explore the poetry, fiction, journals and epistolary writing of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Sara Coleridge, Charlotte and Emily Brontë, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Recent publications include a peer-reviewed article, “Mother-Child Bonds and Resistive Embodiment in Sara Coleridge’s Writing,” in Essays in Romanticism and a chapter, “Resistive Embodiment and Incestuous Desire in Mary Shelley’s Mathilda,” in the scholarly collection, Romantic Women’s Writing and Sexual Transgression, edited by Kathryn Ready and David Sigler. In addition to British literature, her other interests include literary tourism and indigenous literature and activism. Her article on Menominee poet and activist Chrystos, “‘When my hands are empty / I will be full’: Visualizing Two-Spirit Bodies in Chrystos’s Not Vanishing” was published in Studies in American Indian Literatures.

Current projects include an article on Sara Coleridge’s fantasy novel Phantasmion: A Fairy Tale, a chapter on resistive embodiment in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s epic poem Aurora Leigh, and a research project on the changes made to Aurora Leigh between its initial publication and 1857.