Krista Lysack received her Ph.D. from Queen's University, where her dissertation was awarded the A. C. Hamilton Prize. She went on to hold a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada postdoctoral fellowship, hosted by Yale University.
She has subsequently been a visiting scholar at Gladstone’s Library in Wales and at the University of Edinburgh’s Centre for the History of the Book, and been named a visiting scholar at the Rachel Carson Centre for Environment and Society in Munich (declined). She is currently on the editorial board of Time & Society, and a member of the School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies at Western and of the Sydney Environment Institute in Australia.
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 written 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 appear 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, is included in Speculative Nature Writing: An Anthology (Guillemot Press).
Supported by a SSHRC Insight Grant, her current research considers weather—its affective forms, vibrant materialities, spectral ontologies—in the Brontës.