Karen Bourrier

  

Karen Bourrier is a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow at Western University in Ontario, Canada. She has recently completed a book MS, The Perfecting of Strength out of Weakness: Disability and Masculinity in Victorian Fiction, and guest-edited a special issue of Women's Writing on Dinah Mulock Craik, forthcoming in Spring 2013. Her articles have appeared in journals such as Victorian Literature and Culture and Prose Studies. She received her PhD from Cornell University in 2009 and has also taught at Boston University.