Bethany Wiggin received her B.A. from Swarthmore College and her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. She comes to Penn in 2003 having defended her dissertation, "Fiction, France, and Other Vices: Crossing German Borders in Fictional Narratives, 1680-1720." There she examines discussions about novels and their readers before the emergent genre was reformed in the 1750s.  Her interests lie in the intersections between the early modern period and contemporary theoretical concerns including gender and postcolonial studies. While revising the dissertation for a book manuscript, she is also at work on a project exploring the geography of European fashionability from the mid-sixteenth to the early-eightheenth century. In the Fall of 2004, she taught GRMN003 "Censored!", a freshman seminar, and GRMN531 "German Literature to 18th Century". In the Spring of 2005, she taught GRMN318 "Foreign Exchange", GRMN653 "Baroque", and GRMN 395 "Senior Colloquium". In the Fall of 2005, she taught GRMN 269 "Intro to German Culture" and GRMN 531 "German Literature to 18th Century". In the Spring 2006, she taught GRMN 665 "Early Modern Seminar". In the Fall of 2006, she teaches GRMN 003 "Censored!" and GRMN 531 "German Literature to the 18th century".