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Bethany Williamson teaches courses in British and global literatures, literary theory, and academic writing. She earned her Ph.D. at Southern Methodist University (SMU), specializing in Restoration and 18th-century British literature and the problems posed by globalization and empire during the Enlightenment and beyond. She is the author of Orienting Virtue: Civic Identity and Orientalism in Britain’s Global Eighteenth Century (University of Virginia Press, 2022), which examines how British writers’ ideas of political virtue were influenced by global encounters. She has published articles in peer-reviewed journals such as Eighteenth-Century Fiction; Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies; ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830; and Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture. She spends much of her free time reading (especially contemporary fiction), but also enjoys playing the piano, cooking, traveling, and exploring coastal California--as a New Jersey native, she's happy to live near the ocean again! She loves teaching Biola students and relishes good questions and conversations of all kinds, both in and out of the classroom.