Cayla Eagon

Cayla D. Eagon earned her PhD in English at the University of Colorado Boulder in 2021. Her dissertation, “Choosing Death: Suicide in Victorian Literature and Culture,” examined novels, poetry, and visual artwork through hermeneutics of mortal agency and self-expression. At CU Boulder, she taught introductory and upper-division literature classes with an emphasis on women writers, themes of madness, ecofeminism, racial ecologies, and speculative futures. She holds an MA in Literary and Cultural Studies from Illinois State University where she earned a Graduate Certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies and taught freshman composition. 

Prior to joining Romantic Circles, Cayla worked as a data researcher for the Stainforth Library of Women’s Writing and an editorial assistant for Digital Defoe: Studies in Defoe & His Contemporaries. Cayla currently works in curriculum and learning design.