Dr. Cynthia Richards is a Professor of English at Wittenberg University in Ohio.  She holds a B.A. in English from Brown University and a M.A. and Ph.D. in English and American Literature from New York University

Her publications include “‘War Hath Determined Us: Teaching the Body in the Context of War,” Transformations (Spring/Summer 2009); “The ‘Pleasures of Complicity’: Sympathetic Identification and the Female Reader in Early Eighteenth-Century Amatory Fiction,” The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, Fall 1995; “Lessons Learned from a Green Knight; Or How I Set Classroom Expectations,” The Teaching Professor, May 2002.  She has presented numerous papers at academic conferences, such as “Democratic Dispersals: Torture in Oroonoko,” at the Conference of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies in March 2009.

As a Fulbright scholar in 2004-2005, she taught courses in literature at Palacky University in the Czech Republic.