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 Assistant Professor of English at Cape Breton University. I specialize in digital narratives and eighteenth-century literature at CBU.
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 not sure what my next project will be, but I know one thing: I want it to be funny.
In my digital work, I focus on academic-adjacent podcasting and examine how digital publishing methods can expand scholarly norms. In plain language, I like scholarship that is clear, engaging, and legible to the public; I think scholarly podcasts are a powerful way to trouble basic assumptions about what scholarship has to be (often rigid, obscure, and exclusionary) and do things differently. I also work with digital editions, hypertext games, computational text analysis, and minimal computing. I am an avowed LLM hater. Otherwise, I am an enthusiastic novice and very interested in learning about new tools and approaches that do not support evil billionaires!
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.