Nora Gilbert is a professor of English at the University of North Texas, where she co-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 co-editor of Victorian Gaslighting: Genealogy of an Injustice (2026). Her essays have appeared in such venues as PMLA, Film & History, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Victorian Review, Eighteenth-Century Life, Screen, and Public Books. Since 2017, she has served as editor of Studies in the Novel.