Education

BA Monmouth College
MA Kent State University
PhD University of Wisconsin

Research/Teaching Focus

Nineteenth-century American literature and theater; bibliography and textual studies

Recent/Selected Publications

“In His Own Time: The Early Academic Reception of Mark Twain.” Mark Twain Annual 1 (2003): 45–60.

“Late-19th-Century Literature.” American Literary Scholarship: An Annual (1999): 259–88.

“Zola and Mark Twain’s Public Writing.” Excavatio: Emile Zola and Naturalism 10 (1997): 34–39.

Ed. with Rosalie Hewitt. Index to Reviews of Bibliographical Publications. Boston: Hall, 1980.

Faculty photo by Patrick Scott Vickers – 2014