Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes has lived in four countries on three continents, taught everything from piano to kindergarten literacy to English for adult learners, and worked in the hospitality industry more than once. Before joining the faculty at George Fox, she taught high school in Budapest (Hungary) and Sydney (Australia), was a visiting assistant professor at Wheaton College (Illinois), and served as head of English and Communication at Holy Cross College (Notre Dame, Indiana).

Jessica is currently an Associate Professor of English at George Fox University, where she also serves as Chair of the Department of English and Languages. Her research focuses on nineteenth-century British hermeneutics and retellings of Bible stories, particularly among Victorian novelists and historians. Her publications include invited chapters on the Bible in literature and Victorian approaches to the Gospel of John, as well as articles on George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Walter Pater, and the book of Revelation. Her first book examined representations of Jesus in the Victorian novel.