Biography
Jessica R. Valdez is an associate professor of English at the University of Hong Kong. Her first book, Plotting the News in the Victorian Novel, explores how nineteenth-century novels analysed the formal and social workings of news, and it is now available with Edinburgh University Press. She is currently working on a new book-length project that examines the intersecting imaginaries of the United States and China in nineteenth-century British literature. She earned her Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University.
Jessica R. Valdez是香港大學的助理教授,主要教授英文。她的首部著作《Plotting the News in the Victorian Novel》由愛丁堡大學出版社,主要探討十九世紀小說如何理解新聞時事。Jessica現正進行一項有關十九世紀英國文學對美國與中國的想像的研究計畫。她於約翰霍普金斯大學取得博士學位。