Jennifer Koopman continues her research on the Scottish Romantic writer George MacDonald. In August 2014, she presented, at Oxford University’s conference “Informing the Inklings: George MacDonald and the Victorian Roots of Modern Fantasy,” her paper “Romanticism’s ‘Darker and More Evil Forms’: How Phantastes Reworks Shelley’s ‘Alastor.'”

She also continues her work as an editor for the George MacDonald Society, producing, this year, volume 75 (2015) of Orts: The Newsletter of the George MacDonald Society.

Publications

• “Gothic Degeneration and Romantic Rebirth in Donal Grant.” Rethinking George MacDonald: Contexts and Contemporaries. Eds. Chris MacLaughlin, John Pazdziora, and Ginger Stelle. Glasgow: Scottish Literature International, 2013.

Education

• PhD, 2007, McGill University
• MA, 1999, Queen’s University
• BA, 1998, Simon Fraser University