Ellie White is a first-year Ph.D. student and Teaching Assistant at the University of Iowa, where she intends to study Victorian literature and transnational coming-of-age novels. She earned her B.A. in English from the University of Michigan-Dearborn in 2020, after which she spent two years teaching ESL in Vienna, Austria, with the support of a grant from the Austrian Ministry of Education, administered by Fulbright Austria.