Recently retired, Dagni Bredesen taught in EIU's English department from 2001 until 2020. Her research on Victorian widowhood and on nineteenth-century female detectives has been published as journal articles and in essay collections. She has edited a volume comprising two 1864 yellowbacks, the first works in British fiction to feature professional women detectives—The Female Detective and Revelations of a Lady Detective (2010) and produced a scholarly edition of the penny dreadful Ruth the Betrayer or the Female Spy published by Valancourt Books (2018). Professor Bredesen is currently working on a review essay for Literature Compass and a monograph Detecting: a Profession for Victorian Women.