18th Century

Gothic

Education

• PhD in English Language and Literature, University of Virginia 2008
• MA in English Language and Literature, University of Virginia 2008
• MFA in Poetry, Virginia Commonwealth University 1999
• BA in English (Psychology minor), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 1995

Research Interests

• Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture
• Robinsonades
• The Gothic
• Popular Culture
• Material Culture
• Feminism

Select Publications

• “‘mushrooms, capers, and other sorts of pickles’: Remaking the Robinsonade in Peter Longueville’s The Hermit (1727).” Rewriting Crusoe: The Robinsonade across Languages, Cultures, and Media. Ed. Jakub Lipski. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP, 2020. 9–22. 2020.
• “The Crusoeiana: Material Crusoe.” Adapting the Eighteenth Century: Pedagogies and Practices. Eds. Sharon Harrow and Kirsten Saxton. U of Rochester P, 2020. 213–233. 2020.
• “Robinson Crusoe and the Form of the New Novel.” The Cambridge Companion to Robinson Crusoe. Ed. John Richetti. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2018. 16–31. 2018.
• “Secret History and the It-Narrative.” The Secret History in Literature, 1660–1820. Eds. Rebecca Bullard and Rachel Carnell. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2017. 117–133. 2017.
• Essential Scots and the Idea of Unionism in Anglo-Scottish Literature, 1603–1832. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP. 2016.

Affiliations

• Modern Language Association
• American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
• Defoe Society
• The Johnsonians
• Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society

Courses

• The Gothic
• Fan Fiction: Revising H.P. Lovecraft
• Popular Culture Studies: Robinson Crusoe
• 18th-Century British Novel
• Reading Literature: Metafiction

Awards

• CHS Excellence in Junior Scholarship Award, College of Humanities and Sciences, VCU. 
• Lewis Walpole Library, Yale/ASECS Fellow, short-term fellowship 
• Robert W. Woodruff Library, Emory, Manuscripts and Rare Books Library, short-term fellowship
• Chawton House Library, University of Southampton, short-term fellowship 
• Folger Shakespeare Library, short-term fellowship