Kristina Chesaniuk specializes in American Literature from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries with a focus on space/place theory, women and gender studies, urban literature, and feminist geography. Her scholarly research investigates dramatic changes in women’s geographic experiences as represented by key literary texts from that period. Chesaniuk’s most recent work examines how women experienced specific urban spaces and places outside of the traditional domestic sphere and how these spaces altered and influenced women’s agency and mobility. Chesaniuk received her Ph.D. from Auburn University. She holds an M.A. from Auburn and a B.A. from Rutgers University – New Brunswick. Before coming to Princeton, she taught courses in American Literature, Research and Composition, and Basic Writing at Auburn University and Fairleigh Dickinson University.