Hilary Teynor teaches seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British literature, along with British literature survey courses and composition. Her teaching and research interests include the novel and prose romance, drama and performance (including Shakespeare), humor and satire, and historical and philosophical contexts for literature. Teynor has published
an article on Henry Fielding's Tom Jones in Eighteenth-Century Fiction, and is working on a book project, based on her dissertation research, entitled Family Strictures: Households in Mid-Eighteenth-Century British Novels. In Family Strictures Teynor examines the ways in which literary servants and wards—figures within the household yet often outside of the kinship group—open up an understanding of the tensions between traditional and modern forms
of association in eighteenth-century Britain. Her other work in progress is an article on servant conduct manuals. After earning her BA at The College of Wooster in 1998, she went on to The University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she finished her Ph.D. in 2006. Teynor taught at both UW-Madison and a branch campus of the Wisconsin system before joining Ashland's English department.