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 Lessons: Reading Aloud and the Politics of Attention, 1800-1932. A prequel to audiobook history, this book chronicles the history of listening to fiction in the century before the first talking book and offers a theory of the novel as shaped by the ear, crafted for and about listening. 

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