Ph.D. Student in English Literature
University of Tennessee • Knoxville
Esther Godfrey is completing her Ph.D. in English Literature at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Her dissertation "Gender, Power, and the January-May Marriage in Nineteenth-Century British Literature" examines age as an important component of gender construction. Her essay "From Governess to Girl-Bride in Jane Eyre" is forthcoming from Studies in English Literature: 1500-1900 in Fall 2005.