Zoë McGee is a literary scholar and author whose work focuses on British literature of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, with particular attention to genre, gender, and social convention. She is the author of *Courting Disaster: Reading Between the Lines of the Regency Novel*, published by Manchester University Press in 2025, which examines how Regency-era novels use subtext, narrative restraint, and social codes to address risk, reputation, and marriage. McGee’s research analyzes works by writers including Jane Austen and her contemporaries, situating the Regency novel within its historical and cultural context. Her scholarship contributes to studies of the novel, women’s writing, and the literary history of the Regency period.