Jo Parsons is a Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at Falmouth University.
Jo is originally a Victorian Literature specialist with interests in masculinity, the body, Wilkie Collins, and Victorian Sensation Fiction, but now she is now leading Falmouth University’s move into the area of Erotica and Romantic Fictions and is currently working on a new project on popular women’s writing from 1950–the present day, with a particular focus on the Bonkbuster. Her research, both Victorian and contemporary, is grounded in gender and cultural studies. Jo is a co-editor (with Ruth Heholt) of both the Gender and the Body in Literature and Culture and Nineteenth-Century and Neo-Victorian Cultures book series with Edinburgh University Press, as well as assistant editor of Revenant. Jo is currently editing a new collection entitled:Bonkbuster! Sex and Popular Romance from the 1950s to the Present Day
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