Jane is a Professor in English Literature. Her chief area of research is colonial literature, the networks, influences, and adjustments of the global literary world during the long nineteenth century, from the Romantics to the modernists. She interested in the transportation of European literary modes throughout empire (as examined in her 2016 Colonial Literature and the Native Author: Indigeneity and Empire), in colonial reading as accommodation and disjunct, and in the literary representation of cultural encounter. She has recently completed a study of the ways in which Robinson Crusoe was read in colonial New Zealand. At present she is working on an aspect of Katherine Mansfield’s 1907 Urewera Notebook as well as developing a project on a group of English women poets writing in and about India at the first decades of the nineteenth century.