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Carolyn Dever is a scholar and teacher of British literature and culture of the nineteenth century. She is the author of Chains of Love and Beauty: The Diary of Michael Field (Princeton University Press, 2022), and the editor of One Soul We Divided: A Critical Edition of the Diary of Michael Field (Princeton University Press, 2023). Dever's earlier books include Death and the Mother from Dickens to Freud: Victorian Fiction and the Anxiety of Origins (Cambridge), Skeptical Feminisms: Activist Theory, Activist Practice (Minnesota), The Literary Channel: The Inter-National Invention of the Novel (Princeton), and The Cambridge Companion to Anthony Trollope (Cambridge). She is co-editor, with Amy Kahrmann Huseby, of the ongoing Cambridge History of Victorian Women's Writing.
In partnership with a team of scholars worldwide, Dever leads the Michael Field Diary project: michaelfielddiary.dartmouth.edu.
Dever has served extensively in higher education leadership, including as Dartmouth's provost and chief budget officer, and as dean of the College of Arts and Science at Vanderbilt University. She is a founding partner of Dever Justice LLC, which works to support professional and leadership development for faculty members worldwide. Dever serves on the boards of Johns Hopkins University Press, Northern Stage, and the Howe Library Corporation.