Elizabeth Wilder graduated from Reed College in 2011 with a B.A. in English. She subsequently taught literature and composition at the University of Montenegro on a Fulbright fellowship. In 2013, she received an MPhil in English from Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where she was a Gates Cambridge Scholar. Her current research interests include ward/guardian relationships in Victorian novels, the intersection of formalist and historicist methodologies, queer theory, and narrative theory.