Kristen Guest
Dr. Kristen Guest's research interests are in nineteenth century theatre and Victorian popular culture. "I have published on Victorian melodrama, cannibalism, and on popular authors such as Marie Corelli (the first Big bestseller in the modern sense of the term) and Isabella Beeton (the nineteenth-century Martha Stewart, minus the prison time).
I am currently at work on a SSHRCC funded project focusing on Victorian detective fiction that I hope to publish as a scholarly monograph. This project is exciting for me because it extends my interests popular culture and theatre. It will also include a chapter on depictions of policing and detection in western Canada in popular fiction about the North West Mounted Police. Since taking up residence in Prince George, my husband and I have also tried to explore northern BC as much as possible.
Source: University of Northern British Columbia
