About Me

Nicole Lobdell an Assistant Professor of English at Louisiana Scholars’ College (the state’s honors college) at Northwestern State University of Louisiana. Previously, she was a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at DePauw University in Indiana and a Marion L. Brittain Fellow in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, GA. She holds a PhD in English from the University of Georgia.

With expertise in 19th-century British and World literature, Nicole Lobdell teaches a range of courses with interests in gender and sexuality studies, genre and poetics, Gothic literature, health humanities, and science fiction.

She is the author of X-RAY (2024) in Bloomsbury’s popular Object Lessons series and co-editor of Broadview Press’s H.G. Wells’s 1897 The Invisible Man (2018). She is finishing Bithia Mary Croker: Short Stories, part literary biography and part critical anthology, which is under contract with Routledge, and is working on a book about the Victorian biographies of Mary Shelley.

In 2024, she received the Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award at Northwestern State University of Louisiana, and she was the Huntington Fellow at Lincoln College at the University of Oxford (UK).

Her research has been supported by external awards and fellowships from the NEH, the Huntington Library, Lincoln College at the University of Oxford (UK), the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, and the East-West Center for Asian Studies at the University of Hawai’i.

She serves as editor of the interdisciplinary journal Nineteenth Century Studies and as the webmaster for Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies (INCS).

Please visit the CV page for more information.

Contact

Email: lobdelln@nsula.edu

Twitter/X: @nicolelobdell

Cover Images in rotation:

Reading Girl, Gustav Adolphe Hennig, 1828

Young Girl Reading the Qaran, Osman Hamdi Bey, 1880

Woman Reading, Felix Vallotton, 1915

At the Breakfast Table with the Morning Newspaper, L. A. Ring, 1898

A Lady Reading, Gwen John, 1909-11

The Library, Elizabeth Shippen Green, 1905

Dreams, Vittorio Matteo Corcos, 1896

Reading at a Table, Pablo Picasso, 1934