Dr. Krista Lysack

Full Professor

Phone: 519-433-3491
Email: klysack@uwo.ca

Krista Lysack received her Ph.D. from Queen's University. She went on to hold a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada postdoctoral fellowship, hosted by Yale University.

Prior to her appointment at King’s, she taught at the University of Victoria, Queen’s University, Western University, and Huron University. She has also been a visiting scholar at Gladstone’s Library in Wales and the University of Edinburgh’s Centre for the History of the Book. Currently, she is on the editorial board of Time & Society, and she holds memberships in the School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies at Western and the Sydney Environment Institute.

Dr. Lysack’s books to date include Come Buy, Come Buy: Shopping and the Culture of Consumption in Victorian Women’s Writing (Ohio University Press) and, most recently, Chronometres: Devotional Literature, Duration, and Victorian Reading (Oxford University Press).

She has also published articles and chapters on a variety of nineteenth-century British writers (the Brontës, Christina Rossetti, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Michael Field, Frances Ridley Havergal, John Keble, Emma Jane Worboise), and on literature in its relations to meteorology and ecology; religion and devotion; reading practices, attention, and temporality; shopping, consumer culture, and symbolic economies; and women’s suffrage and print culture. These have appeared or are forthcoming in such publications as Victorian Studies, Brontë Studies, Victorian Poetry, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, The Routledge Companion to Literature and Religion, and The Edinburgh History of Women’s Periodical Culture in Britain, to name a few.

“Shelterbelt,” a lyric essay about trees and solastalgia, appeared recently in Speculative Nature Writing: An Anthology (eds. Hetty Saunders and Jos Smith, Guillemot Press).

Supported by a SSHRC Insight Grant, her current research considers weather—its affective forms, vibrant materialities, spectral ontologies—in the Brontës.