About me
Carolyn Williams is Distinguished Professor and Kenneth Burke Chair in English at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. Before she devoted herself to melodrama – including melodrama as it appears in the novel – she wrote Transfigured World: Walter Pater’s Aesthetic Historicism (Cornell University Press, 1989) and Gilbert and Sullivan: Gender, Genre, Parody (Columbia University Press, 2010). In addition to publishing essays on Victorian novels, poetry, non-fiction prose, and theater, she edited the Cambridge Companion to English Melodrama (Cambridge University Press, 2018). She loves the Dickens Universe – and has been coming for 25 years.
