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Selected Publications and Projects

• The Alice Books and the Contested Ground of the Natural World (Routledge, 2017)
• Austen Said: Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen's Novels. Data-mining project.
• Jane Austen's Anglicanism (Ashgate, 2011)
• Critical Essays on Jane Austen (G.K. Hall, 1998)
• Romance, Language, and Education in Jane Austen's Novels (Macmillan, 1988)
• Essays on Jane Austen, George Eliot, Charlotte Bronte, R.L. Stevenson, Evelyn Waugh, P.G. Wodehouse, and Wallace Stevens, among others.

Courses Taught

Undergraduate courses

• University Freshman Honors Seminar (Manners and Cultural Codes)
• University Senior Honors Seminar (Jane Austen; Comedy and Tragedy)
• Introduction to English Studies
• Introduction to Poetry
• Shakespeare
• Children’s Literature
• Composition and Literature
• Twentieth-Century Fiction
• Intermediate Composition
• Women in Popular Culture
• English Authors After 1800 (regular and Honors versions)
• British Authors After 1800: The Mystery and Gothic Tradition
• Twentieth-Century Women’s Literature
• Introduction to Women’s Literature
• Jane Austen
• Modern Fiction
• Nineteenth-Century British Literature
• Victorian Novelists
• Nineteenth-Century British Literature: Poetry and Non-fiction Prose
• The Novel: 1700-1900
• Literary Criticism
• English Capstone: Modernity

Graduate courses

• Literary Criticism
• Nineteenth-Century British Literature
• The Nineteenth-Century British Novel
• The Nineteenth-Century British Novel: The Gothic Tradition
• The American Short Story
• Modern Fiction
• Teaching the Novel
• Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Nineteenth Century (cotaught with Benjamin Rader, History; Ken Winkle, History; Wendy Katz, Art History)
• Interdisciplinary Themes in the Nineteenth Century: Manners and Class
• Jane Austen
• Nineteenth-Century Children’s Literature

Areas of Interest

19th- and 20th-Century British literature, especially the novel

Jane Austen

Lewis Carroll

Interdisciplinary 19th-century studies

Narrative theory

Genre theory

History of manners

Anglo-American modernism