Recent Courses Taught
- English 199 Discovery Seminar: Interviews with the Vampire
- English 203 Victorian Literature and Culture
- English 296 Honors Seminar: Middle-Class Women and the Marriage Plot
- English 300 Writing about Literature: the Age of Victoria
- English 300 Writing about Literature: Victorian Sensation
- English 355 Major Authors: Gaskell and Eliot
- English 397 Honors Seminar: Novels without Borders
- Graduate Seminar: Victorian Character
- Graduate Seminar: Development as Freedom? Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Cultures of Development
- Graduate Seminar: Victorian Internationalism
- Graduate Seminar: Transatlantic Blackness (co-taught with Mark Thompson)
Areas of Interest
Victorian literature and culture; gothic genres; critical, feminist, postcolonial, and political theory; cultural studies; literature in its relation to contemporary understandings of liberalism, globalization, internationalism, and development.
Reviews Editor
Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies
Publications
Books:
Victorian Literature and the Victorian State: Character and Governance in a Liberal Society (Johns Hopkins, 2003).
Goth: Undead Subculture Co-edited with Michael Bibby (Duke UP, Spring 2007).
Select Articles:
“‘Looking for something forever gone’: Gothic Masculinity, Androgyny, and Ethics at the Turn of the Millennium.” Cultural Critique 55 (Spring, 2007), forthcoming.
Review of Daniel S. Malachuck’s Perfection, the State and Victorian Liberalism. Victorian Studies 48.2 (Winter 2006): 323-325.
“Toward a Victorianist’s Theory of Androgynous Experiment.” Victorian Studies 47.2 (Winter 2005): 217-231.
“Is there a Doctor in the House?: Sanitary Reform, Philanthropy and Professionalism in Dickens’s Mid-Century Fiction.” Victorian Literatuare and Culture. “Work in Progress” section 31.2 (September 2003): 525-553.
“Beyond the Panopticon: Victorian Britain and the Critical Challenge of a Liberal Society.” PMLA Special Issue on “Imagining History” 118.3 (May 2003): 1-34.
“Packaged Alternatives: the Incorporation of Radio Youth Culture,” Communities of the Air. Ed. Susan Squier (Duke University Press, 2003). 134-163.
Review (with Gregg Crane) of Irene Tucker, A Probable State: The Novel, the Contract, and the Jews. MLQ 64.2 (June 2003): 260-265
“Character and Pastorship in Two British ‘Sociological’ Traditions…” Disciplinarity at the Fin de Siècle. Ed. Amanda Anderson and Joseph Valente. (Princeton, 2002). 235-260.
“‘Making the Working Man Like Me’: Charity, Pastorship and Middle-Class Identity in Nineteenth-Century Britain …” Victorian Studies 43.4 (Summer 2001): 591-617.
“England’s ‘Glorious “Middle Way”: Self-Disciplinary Self-Making and Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility.” Genre (Spring 2000): 51-81.
“‘A Middle Class Cut into Two’: Historiography and Victorian National Character,” ELH 67.1 (Spring 2000): 141-76.
“‘Go and Marry Your Doctor’: Fetishism and ‘Redundance’ at the Fin de Siècle and the Vampires of ‘Good Lady Ducayne,’” Beyond Sensation: Mary Elizabeth Braddon in Context. Ed. Marlene Tromp, Pamela Gilbert, and Aeron Haynie. Albany: SUNY UP, 1999. 211-33.
“Postmodern Gothic: The Lost Brides of Frankenstein and the Dark Taste of Fear,” Diegesis: The Journal for the Association of Research in Popular Fiction 1 (Fall 1997): 21-53.
Work in Progress
Victorian Internationalisms: British Encounters with "the South".
Co-Editor with Julia Wright. Special Issue of Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net (RaVoN) on Victorian Internationalisms.
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