Theo Joy Campbell

Pronouns: they/them

Email: ajcampbell25@wisc.edu

Year Admitted: 2023

Bio

Theo is a PhD candidate in literary studies. Their dissertation combines historicist and formalist methods to examine the political uses of folk and fairy tales in colonized places in the long 19th century. It also explores how these uses of folk and fairy tales presage the politics of contemporary decolonial speculative/fantasy writing.

Research Interests

19th century British Literature; Fairy Tales; Trans Studies; Non-realist genres.

Selected Publications or Research

“Caring for Inis Meáin: The Work and Writing of District Nurse Bridget Hedderman.” New Hibernia Review, vol. 28, no. 4, 2024.

“Not Man. Woman”: A Transfeminine Reading of Leopold Bloom.” James Joyce Quarterly (forthcoming)