Dr. Amy L. Montz is Professor of English, specializing in 18th- and 19th-century British Literature, young adult (YA) literature, fashion and material culture, and the gothic. Her academic monograph, DRESSING FOR ENGLAND: FASHION AND NATIONALISM IN VICTORIAN NOVELS, is forthcoming from SUNY Press (December 2025). She has published articles in Children's Literature Association Quarterly, Women's Studies, and Neo-Victorian Studies, among others. Her co-edited collections have come out from Ashgate Press (Female Rebellion in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction with Miranda Green-Barteet and Sara Day, 2014) and Bloomsbury Press (Adaptation in Young Adult Novels: Critically Engaging Past and Present with Dana Lawrence, 2020).
She teaches classes in the Gothic (18th- and 19th-century), Young Adult Literature, English Literature Teaching Methods, Argument, and Advanced Composition. She has taught specialized seminars on Jane Austen, YA Sci Fi, and Forbidden Fictions of the 18th century.
She has been at USI since 2010 and lives in Evansville with her spouse and three dogs. Dr. Montz spends her days reading and writing novels of all genres.
Her favorite novels are: North and South (Elizabeth Gaskell), Persuasion (Jane Austen), To Say Nothing of the Dog (Connie Willis), and The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins).
