[2] As a graduate student at the University of Virginia, she was the program coordinator of the Women's Center and a DJ at the college radio station, WTJU, Charlottesville.
At the University of Virginia, Bilger studied under the direction of Patricia Meyer Spacks and Susan Fraiman and was awarded a Ph.D. in Victorian literature in 1992.
[4] Bilger currently serves on the Ms. magazine Committee of Scholars and is the Gender and Sexuality section editor of The Los Angeles Review of Books.
Bilger's work focuses on comedy, Jane Austen, the English novel, feminist theory, popular culture, and gender and sexuality.
[7] Enlightenment feminist humor mocks the idea that men are superior to women and promotes a more egalitarian gender system.