About


Ellen Stockstill earned her MA and PhD in English literature at Georgia State University, ranked the #2 most innovative school in the country by U.S. News & World Report. Following graduate school, she became a Marion L. Brittain Fellow at Georgia Tech and then moved to Pennsylvania for a tenure-track position in the School of Humanities at Penn State Harrisburg. In 2024 she left Penn State to pursue new opportunities in learning design and project management.

She is the co-author of A Research Guide to Gothic Literature in English (2018), and her essays have appeared in a variety of academic and trade publications including Victorian Review, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Thomas Hardy Journal, Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, The Explicator, The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women Writers, The Public Domain Review, and The Conversation.

Her book Faking It: Victorian Documentary Novels was published in 2023 by Clemson and Liverpool University Presses, and it was selected as one of the first 100 books included in JSTOR’s “Path to Open” program.