Based in Australia, Alexander is Emeritus Scientia Professor of English in the School of the Arts and Media at UNSW Sydney, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and a Fellow of The Royal Society of New South Wales. She has written extensively on the Brontës. She has also taught and published on Victorian, Romantic, and gothic literature; Jane Austen, critical editing, literary juvenilia, and literature and landscape gardening; and she is director and general editor of the Juvenilia Press.
