Biography

Nicole Lobdell is an Assistant Professor of English at the Louisiana Scholars’ College at NSULA. 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 literature and culture, Nicole Lobdell teaches a range of courses with interests in biography studies, genre and poetics, gender and sexuality studies, health humanities, and science fiction studies. 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 has also published on the works of Mary Shelley, Christina Rossetti, and Tennyson, among others. She is currently working on Stranger than Fiction: The First Biography of Mary Shelley about a late-Victorian, semi-secret, proto-biography of Mary Shelley.

She edits the interdisciplinary journal Nineteenth Century Studies.

In 2025, she received an NEH Summer Stipend to support her research for Stranger than Fiction. In 2024, she was the Huntington Fellow at Lincoln College at Oxford (UK) and received the Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award for the College of Arts and Sciences at NSU.

Her research has been supported by additional external awards from the NEH, the Huntington Library, 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, as well as grants and awards from Northwestern State University, DePauw University, Georgia Tech, and the University of Georgia.

www.nicolelobdell.com

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