Dr Jo Parsons has been a Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at Falmouth University since 2019. Originally a Victorian Literature specialist with interests in masculinity, the body, Wilkie Collins, and Victorian Sensation Fiction, Jo is now leading Falmouth’s move into the area of Erotica and Romantic Fictions and is currently working on a new project on popular women’s writing from 1970–2000, with a particular focus on the Bonkbuster.
Her research, both Victorian and contemporary, is grounded in gender and cultural studies. Jo is also a co-editor (with Ruth Heholt) of both the Gender and the Body in Literature and Culture and Nineteenth-Century and Neo-Victorian Cultures book series with Edinburgh University Press, as well as assistant editor of Revenant and editor of the Wilkie Collins Journal. Jo is also a creative writer, who also has a successful freelance business as a professional editor and ghost-writer. She is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
