Winter Jade Werner

I specialize in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Romantic and Victorian literature and culture, with interests in the novel, imperialism, religion and secularization, as well as cosmopolitanism and postcolonial theory.My current book-in-progress, “Spreading the Word, Shaping the World: Foreign Missionary Presses and the Rise of Nineteenth-Century ‘World Literature'” examines how foreign missionary presses helped consolidate nineteenth-century ideas of “world literature.” Focusing on missionary presses located in East and Southeast Asia, it illuminates how concepts of “world literature” were defined and articulated at the peripheries of empire through interreligious encounters.