Anna Neill

Most of my research focuses on British literature of the 18th and 19th centuries. My most recent book, Human Evolution and Fantastic Victorian Fiction (2021), explores how 19th-centry British speculative fiction challenges the racist temporalities of Victorian evolutionary anthropology. Primitive Minds: Evolution and Spiritual Experience in the Victorian Novel (2013) brings together evolutionary science with Victorian psychology and spiritualism. I teach courses in my literary fields as well as critical theory at both the introductory undergraduate and the graduate levels. In the past, I have helped organize and teach poetry classes at Douglas County Jail, and I have published on the relationship between criticism and corrections. I have also written articles on film, on the post-colonial politics of museum display, and on the institutional career of cultural studies.