Alexandra Wettlaufer is a Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Texas at Austin, where she also serves as Associate Director of Plan II Honors. The author of three books and numerous articles on nineteenth-century literature, painting, gender, and representation, she was awarded a 2014-15 Guggenheim Fellowship to write “Reading George: Sand, Eliot, and the Novel in France and Britain, 1830-1900.”