Erzsi Kukorelly is Maître assistante at the University of Geneva, where she teaches and researches English literature of the eighteenth century. She has a BA from the London School of Economics, and a licence ès lettres as well as a doctorate from the University of Geneva. Her interests are in gender studies, the history of reading, and more generally the early novel. She has published articles in eighteenth-century gender studies, as well as on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Her current research focuses on eighteenth-century conduct books for young women.