Grace Gibson is a second-year MA student in the Literature, Language, and Textual Criticism program. She serves as the MA rep in the G.S.E (Graduate Students of English), and the graduate student organizer of C19, the 19th-Century British Seminar. Her research focuses on 18th and 19th-century British female novelists, including the works of Charlotte Lennox, Frances Burney, Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, and George Eliot. Her research interests include novel studies, gender studies, and disability studies. Her current thesis project is on textual bodies, uniting issues of gender and material culture in the late 18th and early 19th centuries by analyzing moments where the female body is presented as a textual object, similarly read, bound, and scrutinized by a reading public.