Ellen Malenas Ledoux is an Associate Professor in the English and Communication Department at Rutgers University-Camden. Her research focuses on transatlantic literature of the eighteenth century. She is the author of two books: <i>Laboring Mothers: Reproducing Women and Work in the Eighteenth Century</i> (University of Virginia Press, 2023) and <i>Social Reform in Gothic Writing: Fantastic Forms of Change, 1764-1834</i> (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). She has published widely on women’s cultural history and Gothic writing in journals such as <i>Studies in Romanticism</i>, <i>The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation</i>, <i>Women’s Writing</i>, and <i>Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture</i>.
