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Sheila Bauer-Gatsos is an assistant professor in English and Director of Composition at Dominican University in River Forest.  Her research areas include nineteenth-century women’s fiction and the scholarship of teaching and learning in the composition classroom.  Most recently, Bauer-Gatsos has been writing on empathy and cognitive literary scholarship, presenting at the British Women Writers Conference in 2014 and 2015 and at the MLA Annual Convention in 2015.  In January 2016, Bauer-Gatsos will serve as presider and presenter on a panel titled “Accessing the Reading Public: From Reader Response to Cognitive Research” at the MLA Convention in Austin.  Her paper, titled “Readers, Scholars, Teachers, Texts,” examines the implications of our new access to readers and argues that literary scholars and teachers have an important role to play in broadening our understanding of the ways that literary texts activate readers’ often varied responses to literature.