Priyanka Anne Jacob is Assistant Professor of English at Loyola University Chicago. She writes about the form of the novel, as inflected through Victorian information and material cultures. Other research interests include: temporality, narrative, detective fiction, epistolarity, empire, and race and gender studies. She has published scholarly articles, one on sensation fiction in Victorian Studies, which received the honorable mention for the 2020 Donald Gray Prize, and one on George Eliot in Victorian Literature and Culture. She has also contributed teaching materials to the website Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom. She earned her doctorate at Princeton University and previously taught at the College of Wooster.