Annette Federico is Professor of English at James Madison University. Her books include Engagements with Close Reading (2016) and Thus I Lived with Words: Robert Louis Stevenson and the Writer's Craft (2017). She has published two edited collections, Gilbert and Gubar's The Madwoman in the Attic After Thirty Years (2009) and My Victorian Novel: Critical Essays in the Personal Voice (2020). She lives in Harrisonburg, Virginia, USA.