Rachel Buurma

Rachel Sagner Buurma is Associate Professor of English Literature at Swarthmore College, where she works on Victorian literature and culture, the novel, book history, and the connections between literary-critical inquiry and information science. Her essays have recently appeared in New Literary History, Representations, Victorian Studies, and The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel, and she is a project lead on the Early Novels Database. She is currently finishing a project on the material history of narrative theory, and beginning one on how Victorian novelists did research. With Laura Heffernan, she is also currently working on a new disciplinary history for English studies titled “The Teaching Archive