Nora Gilbert is an Associate Professor of English at the University of North Texas, where she jointly specializes in nineteenth-century British literature and twentieth-century American film. She is the author of Better Left Unsaid: Victorian Novels, Hays Code Censorship, and the Benefits of Censorship (2013) and has published articles in such journals as PMLA, Film & History, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Victorian Review, Eighteenth-Century Life, and JNT: The Journal of Narrative Theory. Since 2017, she has served as editor-in-chief of Studies in the Novel.