Education

• PhD, Texas A&M University
• MA, Texas A&M University
• BA, Miami University

Research Interests

• Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture
• Museum Culture
• Early American Literature
• Scholarly Editing and Digital Publishing

Select Publications

• “Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville” in Hawthorne in Context. Ed. Monika Elbert. Cambridge UP, 2016.
• Ed. with Wesley Raabe. “A Selection from Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin: A Digital Critical Edition: “Topsy.” Scholarly Editing: The Annual for the Association of Documentary Editing 33.1 (2012)
• “January 29,1852, Chapter 31, Part 1: Uncle Tom’s Cabin in the National Era, Commentary by Les Harrison.”  The Harriet Beecher Stowe Society. 29 January 2012.
• “February 26, 1852, Chapter 35: Uncle Tom’s Cabin in the National Era, Commentary by Les Harrison.” The Harriet Beecher Stowe Society. 26 February 2012.

Editorship

• Co-Editor, with Colin Dewwy, Melville and Art, The Melville Electronic Library.

Affiliations

• Faculty Advisor, VCU Chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, The International English Honor Society.

Recent Grants

• Fulbright Scholars Grant. Universiteit Gent, Spring 2013. 

Links

• Four VCU Faculty Members Receive Prestigious Fulbright Awards, VCU News, 8/13/2012.