Jamie Kramer is a fourth-year PhD candidate in Literature, Criticism, and Textual Studies, concentrating on British and Transatlantic literature of the long eighteenth century. She completed her master’s at Florida Gulf Coast University in 2020. Her research interests include affect theory and eighteenth-century conceptions of sympathy and sensibility, object studies, material culture, women writers, and the didactic purpose of the eighteenth-century novel. Her dissertation will focus on material objects in eighteenth-century novel plots that facilitate emotional responses in both the character and, by extension, in the reader. She is a contributing author on the article “From Archive to Database: Using Crowdsourcing, TEI, and Collaborative Labor to Construct the Maria Edgeworth Letters Project” in Digital Humanities Quarterly. She is also the recipient of the 2022 SEASECS Graduate Essay Prize for “Seeking Passions from  Synthetic Solitude: Visiting the Human and Automaton Hermits of  England’s Garden Hermitages,” which she is currently expanding for publication.