Emma Webster

Emma Webster is a PhD student in English literature. She is interested in the intersection where women's writing, disability, illness, the body, and performance meet in Gothic literature from the late eighteenth century to today. Emma obtained her bachelor's degree in English from McKendree University in Lebanon, Illinois and her master's degree in English literature from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Her most recent project-in-progress is a collaborative work with her colleagues, Jess House and Devoney Looser—an annotated, student-facing transcription of "Ithuriel," an anonymous 1798 manuscript with emendations by Jane Porter, considered to be an early example of women's science fiction.