Long Citation (for publication and press release)
Ina Ferris is an internationally renowned literary scholar whose ground-breaking research on novelistic genres has played a key role in the current reconfiguration of Romantic studies. Her award-winning publications have restored forgotten writers and novelistic modes, expanding the literary field; reclaimed the novel as part of Romanticism; and established the significance of writers from the British peripheries. Dr. Ferris is widely considered to be at the vanguard of English studies' recent turn toward book history. The author of standard works in nineteenth-century studies, she exemplifies a new form of literary history combining literary theory, archival research, rhetorical analysis, reception studies, and print culture studies.

Short Citation (to be read at the Induction Ceremony)
Ina Ferris is an internationally renowned literary scholar whose ground-breaking research on novelistic genres has played a key role in the current reconfiguration of Romantic studies. Her award-winning publications have restored forgotten writers and novelistic modes, expanding the literary field; reclaimed the novel as part of Romanticism; and established the significance of writers from the British peripheries.