Certificate in Electronic Pedagogy, WesleyCenter for New Media, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2003
MA, English, EmoryUniversity, 1999
BA, English, ReedCollege, 1994
Research Interests
Eighteenth-Century Novel; Courtship Novels
Recent Publications
“Tristam Shandy and the Seven Years War: Beyond the Bordered of the Bowling Green
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" The Shandean, 2006.
“The Limits of ‘Laudable Action’: Women’s Marital Choice in John Shebbeare’s The Marriage Act." Topic: The Washington and Jefferson College Review, 2005.
“Punitive Subplots in Eliza Haywoods’s The History of Jemmy and Jenny Jessamy." Eighteenth-Century Women, 2006.
“Moll Hackabout as Magdalen: The Fallen Woman in William Dodd’s The Sisters." Hungarian Journal of English American Studies, 2006.
Courses Frequently Taught
English 267, British Survey to 1790
English 358, British Novels to Austen
Teaching Philosophy
I aspire for my courses to mirror the ideals of eighteenth-century sociability, civility, and literary conversation. I like graduate courses in particular to resemble the Bluestocking meeting and salons of the period.