Jennifer Hall-Witt received her B.A. in history from Northwestern University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in
history from Yale University. Previously, she has taught at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
and at Denison University in history and women’s studies. She specializes in the cultural history of 18th
and 19th century Britain, with a particular interest in gender history, the history of the arts, and political
culture.
She is currently engaged in research on the uses of deception and transparency in the language of late
18th- and early 19th-century British radicals as part of a broader study of the history of gesture in Britain.
She is also working on an essay on the formation of an operatic canon at the Italian Opera in London in
the nineteenth century.