Eighteenth-century literature and Romanticism

Education

• PhD in English, Duke University
• MA in English, Duke University
• BA in Literature and Mathematics, Bennington College

Research Interests

• Eighteenth-Century Literature and Romanticism
• The history of the novel and novel theory
• Feminist theory
• Legal histories of marriage and divorce
• Writing pedagogies 

Courses

• ENGL606: Literary Criticism
• ENGL480: Jane Austen
• ENGL412: 18th-Century Studies: Bad Romances
• ENGL335: British Literature of the Romantic Era
• ENGL332: Eighteenth-Century Novels and Narratives
• ENGL331: Restoration and 18th-century British Literature
• ENGL311: Introduction to Literary Theory
• ENGL 301: Introduction to the English Major
• ENGL236/WSGS236: Women in Literature
• ENGL 215: Reading Literature (The Literature of Memory)
• ENGL204: British Literature II

Select Publications

• “The First Divorced Husband,” Persuasions 46 (Winter 2024).
• “Eighteenth-Century Proud Boys, or, Why Sir Charles Grandison is (a) No Wanker,” Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Special issue on “Refusing Eighteenth-Century Fictions,” April 2024.
• “Jane Austen: Protofeminist, Postfeminist, Bad Feminist,” Persuasions, 2023.
• “Adulterous Austen: Educating the Rake in Sense and Sensibility and Mansfield Park,” ELH 87 (4), 2020, 1055-1078.

Affiliations

• American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
• East-Central/American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (EC/ASECS)
• Jane Austen Society of North America

Awards

• Lift Award, VCU, 2024-2025.
• Huntington Library Travel Grant, 2023-24, in support of research at the Parliamentary Archives in London
• Jane Austen Scholar-in-Residence, Goucher College, Summer 2023
• Mayers Fellowship, Huntington Library, 2020-21 (Short-term fellowship)

Links 

“What Novels Can Tell Us About Gendered Responses to Adultery,” The Academic Minute, August 2022