About Me

Hi! I’m Veronica Litt. I’m an English professor, writer, reader, digital jack-of-all-trades, and amateur letterpress printer from Hamilton, Ontario. I’ve worked as a website writer and Digital Scholarship Coordinator and currently am an Assistant Professor of English at Cape Breton University.

Engraving of a cat opening a bottle of wine

I teach first-year English and develop courses on 18th-century novels and gender in literature, among other things (myths and modern adaptations! the weird idea of home in Canada! digital riffs on the Frankenstein story!).

My research focuses on mass reading experiences of the mid-eighteenth century. I explored this field in my doctoral work at the University of Toronto’s English and Book History programs. I’m currently using institutional funding to develop a database of eighteenth-century readers and drafting a book proposal on how popular novels intersected with abolition and proto-feminism. I’ve been published in peer-reviewed journals like Book History, Persuasions Online, and Women’s Writing, among others.

As a public-facing writer, I’ve authored several articles and a short book on the iconic teen film Clueless (ECW, 2025). I’m in the early stages of my next project: a short book on villains.

In my digital work, I focus on academic-adjacent podcasting, digital editions, and hypertext games, though I dabble in computational text analysis and minimal computing. I am an enthusiastic novice and always interested in learning about new tools and approaches!

Contact

I am not on social media! The best way to get in touch is by emailing me at veronica_litt@cbu.ca.

Image Credit: “The New Kit Cat Club.” Courtesy of the Lewis Walpole Library Digital Assets Collection.