Jennifer Hayward

Jennifer Hayward is Virginia Myers Professor of English and Global Media & Digital Studies; professor of literature (2022-24) and current associate faculty of the Centro de Estudios Americanos at the Adolfo Ibáñez University, Chile. She received her Ph.D. in English literature from Princeton University and has published extensively on the digital humanities, the British in Latin America, the nineteenth-century periodical press, and serialized fiction. Her books include Consuming Pleasures: Active Audiences and Serial Fictions from Dickens to Soap Opera (1997), and new editions of two works by travel writer Maria Graham: Journal of a Residence in Chile (2003) and Journal of a Voyage to Brazil(2011). She co-directs the Anglophone Chile Project with Michelle Prain Brice, digitizing the English-language newspapers published in 19th century Chile. The project received a Major Project Grant from the Endangered Archives Programme of the British Library (2023-25). Access the AnglophoneChile Project website here.

• 19th century British literature and cultural studies
• Postcolonial literature
• Travel literature
• Gender studies

Books

• Maria Graham, Journal of a Voyage to Brazil (Co-editor, with Soledad Caballero; Parlor Press, 2011)
• Maria Graham, Journal of a Residence in Chile (Editor; University Press of Virginia, 2003)
• Consuming Fictions: Active Audiences and Serial Fictions from Dickens to Soaps (University Press of Kentucky, 1997)

Articles

• Jennifer Hayward & Michelle Prain Brice (Section Eds). “The English-Language Press in Latin America.” In Isabelle Richet and Diana Cooper-Richet (Eds.), The Edinburgh History of the Transnational British Press in Non-Anglophone Countries, 1800-1914. Forthcoming from Edinburgh University Press (2025).
• “The entangled history of Ale-Quillén.” Co-author Michelle Prain Brice. Victorian Periodicals Review special issue, “Race and Transnationalism in Periodical Studies” (2023).
• “‘La nomenclatura de la botánica’: Maria Graham y el arte de la ciencia.” El género en la ciencia: actores, prácticas y políticas. Eds. María José Correa and Verónica Ramírez (Editorial Universitaria de Chile, 2023).
• “‘La cuestión de la mujer ha surgido en Chile’: la prensa británico-chilena de Valparaíso.” Co-author Michelle Prain Brice. Figuras de lo común: Formas y disensos en los estudios literarios. Eds. Mónica González et al. (EUV/Colección Dársena Chile, 2022).
• “Scottish Travel Writing.” The International Companion to Nineteenth-Century Scottish Literature. Sheila Kidd, Caroline McCracken-Flesher, & Ken McNeil (Eds.). (Association of Scottish Literary Studies, 2022).
• “Imagining the Araucanians in the Nineteenth-Century British and Chilean Press.” Co-author Michelle Prain Brice. Victorian Periodicals Review 54:3 (Fall 2021), 419-444.
• “The Valparaiso Review: prensa victoriana en movimiento.” Co-author Michelle Prain Brice. Special issue, “Entre lenguas. Revistas, traducciones y redes,” Antonia Viu Bottini and Laura Fernández Cordero Prevost  (Eds.). Universum (Talca) 36:1, 29-48 (July 2021).
• “Travellers in the Wilderness: Robert Louis Stevenson’s Transformative Travels.” Continental Tourism, Travel Writing, and the Consumption of Culture, 1814-1900. Benjamin Colbert and Lucy Morrison (Eds.) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020): 269-297.
• “‘Looking at nothing with her eyes wide open’: Robert Cunninghame Graham and the Argentineanangelito.” In Empires and Revolutions: Cunninghame Graham and His Contemporaries, eds. Carla Sassi and Silke Strohe (Glasgow: Scottish Literature International, 2017).
• “El Metálico Lord: Money and Mythmaking in Thomas Cochrane’s 1859 Narrative of Services in the Liberation of Chili, Peru, and Brazil from Spanish and Portuguese Domination.” In Culture and Money in the Nineteenth Century: Abstracting Economics, eds. Dan Bivona and Marlene Tromp (Ohio University Press, 2016).
• “Latin America: Beauty, Danger, and Hyperbole.” In Routledge Companion to Travel Writing, ed. Carl Thompson (Routledge, 2015).
• Maudlin Profanity and Midnight Debauchery: Infanticide and the Angelito.” In Fear and Loathing: Victorian Xenophobia, eds. Maria Bachman, Heidi Kaufman, and Marlene Tromp (Ohio State University Press, 2013).
• “‘The Foreigner at Home’: The Travel Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson.” The Journal of Stevenson Studies 9 (2012).“’An occasional trait of Scotch shrewdness’: Narrating nationalism in Frances Calderón de la Barca’s Life in Mexico” (co-authored with Soledad Caballero). Romanticism and the Anglo-Hispanic Imaginary, ed. Joselyn Almeida-Beveridge (Amsterdam: Rodopi Press, 2010).
• “’An occasional trait of Scotch shrewdness’: Narrating nationalism in Frances Calderón de la Barca’s Life in Mexico” (co-authored with Soledad Caballero). Romanticism and the Anglo-Hispanic Imaginary, ed. Joselyn Almeida-Beveridge (Amsterdam: Rodopi Press, 2010).

• Research Society for Victorian Periodicals Field Development Grant (2018; with Michelle Prain Brice, Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, and Jessie Reeder, SUNY Binghamton).
• Profesora Visitante, Programa Doctorado en Literatura, Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (August 2017 and 2018)
• Universidad Autónoma de Chile Research Grant: Digitizing the Archive: Preserving the historical records of the 19^th and early 20^th century British in Chile (2017)
• Fulbright Scholar to Chile (2016-17)