[1][2] She is also the director of the university's Institute of Literature, Languages and Creative Arts (ILLCA).
In addition to two books on 18th-century female writers, she has contributed to journals including Modern Philology, Huntington Library Quarterly, Eighteenth-Century Studies and Notes and Queries.
She serves on the editorial board of Literature Compass and is a member of the Institute for Medieval and Early Modern Studies covering work in the English Departments of Aberystwyth and the University of Wales, Bangor.
[2] She has also collaborated with Professor Jane Aaron of the University of Glamorgan on the third volume of the Oxford Literary History of Wales which covers "Welsh Writing in English, 1536–1914".
[7] In 2013, Prescott was awarded the M. Wynn Thomas Prize for her essay "Archipelagic Coterie Space: Katherine Philips and Welsh Women’s Writing".