Joanna Devereux, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Writing Studies at Western University. Dr. Devereux researches the relationship between nineteenth-century visual arts, theatre, performance, and poetry, with particular attention to Victorian women artists. Her research mission is to connect literary and performance cultures to visual expression in the nineteenth century, showing how artistic forms intersect across media. She also teaches drama, including the practical drama course English 2041F, directs Western Summer Shakespeare, and has taught Shakespeare in Performance at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, linking research, pedagogy, and public humanities work.

Jo received her doctorate from the University of Toronto in 1996. She is the author of The Making of Women Artists in Victorian England and Patriarchy and Its Discontents: Sexual Politics in Selected Novels and Stories of Thomas Hardy and has recently published articles on nineteenth-century women artists and art education in Victorian Review and Victorian Periodicals Review. She was one of the two founding editors of the journal Nineteenth-Century Feminisms, which ran from Fall 1999 to Summer 2003. Currently, she is President of the Victorian Studies Association of Ontario and Book Reviews Editor for English Studies in Canada.