Professor Jeanie Grant Moore received her undergraduate degree from UCLA and her doctorate from the University of California, Riverside. She is professor emerita of English at the University of Wisconsin and is recently retired from the University of San Diego. She has published articles based on British and European literature from the medieval period through the nineteenth century. Her teaching and publications reflect her interest in the way that history and literature are inextricably intertwined, and her current research focuses on the connections between Charles Dickens and the 14th earl of Derby. She lives in San Diego with her husband and family.