Danielle Spratt (she/her) is Director of Community Engagement and a professor of eighteenth-century British and transnational literature in the Department of English at California State University, Northridge. Her areas of interest include critical community engaged research and teaching, the history of science and medicine, the rise of the novel, feminist and gender theory, public and digital humanities, and digital accessibility. She is the founder of CSUN's Center for Public Humanities and a member of the CSUN Basic Needs Outreach Initiative. Between MA and PhD programs, she was an AmeriCorps VISTA volunteer. With Bridget Draxler, she is the author of Engaging the Age of Jane Austen: Public Humanities in Practice (University of Iowa Press, 2018). She is currently finishing a monograph on the history of medicine and reproduction, as well as an edited collection on Jane Austen for Routledge. With David Alff, she is co-editor of Histories of Science: Natural Philosophy in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World  (University of Virginia Press, 2025).