Rachel Vorona Cote

Rachel Vorona Cote is a lecturer in the University of Maryland Department of English and the author of Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today, which was published by Grand Central Publishing in 2020. She writes essays and criticism for a wide variety of publications, including The New York Times Magazine and Book Review, The Nation, The Atlantic, Lapham's Quarterly, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Poetry Foundation, and The Washington Post. She is always happy to talk with students about the experience of being a working writer in the domain of nonfiction. In a past life, she was ABD in the UMD English Department, where she studied Victorian fiction. (She rejoined the department as a lecturer in Fall 2023.) She holds an M.A. in English Literature from The George Washington University and a B.A. in English from The College of William and Mary.