Official Bio

Kristen Figgins is an Assistant Professor of English in the department of Languages, Literature, and Philosophy at Mississippi University for Women. Her research focuses on how evolutionary science is adapted into transhistorical textual and visual media. You can read her work in journals like Adaptation and Literature/Film Quarterly. She is a founding editor of Adaptation Today and an associate editor at Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom.

Education

Ph.D. English, University of Arkansas, Fall 2021
Concentration: Nineteenth-Century British Literature, Adaptation, and Animal Studies
Secondary Focus: Rhetoric and Composition
Dissertation: “Adapting Animals: Nineteenth-Century British Literature, Science, and Media”
Director: Lissette Lopez Szwydky

M.A.English, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Spring 2012
Concentration: Creative Writing
Thesis: “You Will Find It Very Minute: Fictions and Fabulations”
Director: Kate Bernheimer

B.A. English, University of Texas of the Permian Basin, Spring 2010
Minor: Psychology
Summa Cum Laude, Departmental Honors in English, President’s List