Wendy C. Nielsen is an Associate Professor in the English Department, where she has taught since 2003. She teaches an introductory course (World Literature) and undergraduate and graduate courses about comparative literature: Science Fiction, European Romanticism, the Enlightenment, Modern European Novel, Modern Drama, etc.. In addition, she contributes to the Honors Program and Medical Humanities on occasion. One summer, she caught 25% of her class plagiarizing. Her most recent book is not about plagiarizers–Motherless Creations: Fictions of Artificial Life, 1650-1890 (Routledge, 2022).