Pronouns: she/her/hers

Ariel Fried is a postdoctoral fellow in the English department at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Her research focuses on the interaction of discipline-specific language and formal conventions across multiple genres of Victorian literature and scientific study, examining how dominant nineteenth-century paradigms were both upheld and challenged by this cross-disciplinary discursive pollination. Informed by queer, postcolonial, new materialist, and affect studies scholarship, her current projects examine madness and the imperial Gothic in fin-de-siecle sensation fiction, "transness" in nineteenth-century medical and autobiographical discussions of intersexuality, and the narrative and genric overlaps that can be found between Victorian sexology treatises and late-nineteenth-century erotica.