Meet A Retriever—Jessica Floyd, Ph.D. ’17, Gender And Sexuality Scholar And Professor - UMBC: University Of Maryland, Baltimore County

Meet A Retriever—Jessica Floyd, Ph.D. ’17, Gender And Sexuality Scholar And Professor - UMBC: University Of Maryland, Baltimore County

Meet Jessica Floyd, Ph.D. ’17, language, literacy, and culture (LLC). She is an interdisciplinary researcher and scholar who investigates erotic worlds for what they might communicate about gender and sexuality. Her early interests began in her teens while reading the Marquis de Sade’s 120 Days of Sodom, which eventually led her to research John Wilmot, the Second Earl of Rochester, while an undergraduate student at Towson University, and then a…