In Memoriam: Carey Jean Snyder, 1968-2025

Carey Jean Snyder, professor of English literature at Ohio University, passed away on March 20. She was 56 years old and had suffered from breast cancer.

A native of San Jose, California, Dr. Snyder’s career at Ohio University began in 2001. Over the past 24 years, she taught courses on modern British literature, the suffrage movement, and the writings of Virginia Woolf. She held various leadership roles within the department of English, including director of undergraduate students and director of studies for the Honors Tutorial College’s English program. She also served as a member of faculty advisory board for the Margaret Boyd Scholars Program and developed a study abroad program in London.

As a scholar, Dr. Snyder authored several publications, including British Fiction and Cross-Cultural Encounters: Ethnographic Modernism from Wells to Woolf (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008). Her last book, The Feminist New Age: Beatrice Hastings, Katherine Mansfield, and Modernist-Era Periodical Culture, will be published posthumously by Edinburgh University Press.

A native of San Jose, California, Dr. Snyder received her bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, a master’s degree from Claremont Graduate School in California, and a Ph.D. from Stony Brook University in New York.