LuElla D'Amico

LuElla D'Amico is an Associate Professor of English and Coordinator of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of the Incarnate Word. Her writing and research focus on early and nineteenth-century transatlantic literature, children's literature, and women's religious writing, with a specific focus on girlhood and girl culture. You can find her public writing in Notre Dame's Church Life Journal, America Magazine, and Current, among other venues. She lives with her husband, two children, and mischievous chihuahua Leroy on the outskirts of San Antonio.