Deborah Nord graduated from Barnard College, spent two years in an M.A. program at the Victorian Studies Center of the University of Leicester, and earned a PhD from Columbia University.  She joined the Princeton faculty in 1989, after teaching at the University of Connecticut and Harvard University. Her fields of interest include Victorian literature and culture; gender studies; women's writing; literature of the city; autobiography; non-fiction prose; social criticism; ethnicity and race in 19th-century writing; and American Jewish writers.  She is the author of The Apprenticeship of Beatrice Webb (1985) and Walking the Victorian Streets: Women, Representation, and the City (1995), and the editor of John Ruskin's Sesame and Lilies (2002).  Her most recent book, Gypsies and the British Imagination, 1807-1930, was published by Columbia University Press in 2006.  Current projects include an essay on the transformation of Dickens criticism in the middle of the 20th century and another on urban representation in the Victorian period.  Prof. Nord also teaches in the Program in the Study of Women and Gender, where she served as director for nine years.  She is a faculty fellow at Rockefeller College and a member of the Judaic Studies faculty committee.