I'm Holly Wiegand, Assistant Professor of English and Affiliate Honors Professor of Humanities & Literature at Indiana Wesleyan University.

I received my Ph.D. in English Literature from Boston University in 2025.

I am a dedicated teacher and scholar of 19th-century transatlantic literature and culture, women's studies, poetry, videogame studies, literature and religion, the novel, and more. I take an interdisciplinary lens connecting the past to our present.

I seek to model and foster collaboration, curiosity, and compassion in all my work.

My book project, “Bold Devotion: Female Religious Authority and Transatlantic 19th-Century Fiction,” recovers the sophisticated work and words of real and fictional women preachers, writers, and theologians of the 19th century.

My work has appeared or is forthcoming in Legacy, ESQ, Brontë Studies, and in the edited collection Victorians and Videogames with Routledge.

When I'm not reading and writing, I enjoy indoor rock climbing, kayaking, Montana downhill skiing, cooking, and playing videogames.