Nora Gilbert

Nora Gilbert is a professor of literary and film studies and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of North Texas, where she co-specializes in Victorian literature and early Hollywood film. She is the author of "Better Left Unsaid: Victorian Novels, Hays Code Films, and the Benefits of Censorship" (Stanford University Press, 2013) and "Gone Girls, 1684-1901: Flights of Feminist Resistance in the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Novel" (Oxford University Press, 2023), as well as coeditor of "Victorian Gaslighting: Genealogy of an Injustice" (SUNY Press, 2026). She is currently at work on a monograph about the relationship between film stardom, feminism, and anti-feminism during Hollywood's golden age, called "Unwomaned!: Classical Hollywood Stardom and the Threat of Female Independence." Her essays have appeared in PMLA, Film & History, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Victorian Review, JNT, Screen, Avidly, Public Books, and other venues. She has served as editor of the journal Studies in the Novel since 2017.