KATE NESBIT

is an Assistant Professor of English at Central College, where she teaches courses in nineteenth- and twentieth-century British literature, sound & media studies, and writing. 

Kate is currently at work on her book project, Listening to Books: Reading Aloud and the Nineteenth-Century Novel. This project chronicles how the practice of domestic oral reading shaped the novel and its form, especially as practitioners of the genre reckoned with a changing reading public and emerging systems of book production.

Kate's scholarship on sound, voice, and oral reading has appeared or is forthcoming in journals such as English Literary History, Victorian Poetry, European Romantic Review, and Studies in the Novel.