Ellen Malenas Ledoux is an Associate Professor at Rutgers University, Camden. She specializes in Gothic and Romantic-era literature. Her forthcoming book, Social Reform in Gothic Writing: Fantastic Forms of Change, 1764-1834 (Palgrave Macmillan), examines the relationship between Gothic texts and social reform in transatlantic writers of the Revolutionary period.
Her current project, Laboring Mothers: Reproducing Women and Work in the Romantic Era, focuses on the material challenges of motherhood faced by women working in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries as represented in literature, art, and popular culture. She has published articles in Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture and Women’s Writing.