Student Directory

Afrofuturism; 19th-/20th-century African and African American literature; psychoanalysis; sci-fi/cli-fi; feminist science and technology studies.

Sixteenth-/17th-century literature; Shakespeare and early modern drama; history of the theater; book history and manuscript studies; humanism and the classical tradition; Eastern European Renaissance.

Nineteenth-/20th-century American Literature; migration studies; regionalism; legal history; ecocriticism and environmental justice

Modernism; 20th-/21st-century British literature; James Joyce; Virginia Woolf

Critical theory; early modern; literature and politics

Eighteenth- and 19th-century British literature; transatlantic studies; history and theory of the novel and of the short story; film studies

My dissertation, “Authorizing Taste: Connoisseurship and Transatlantic Modernity, 1880-1959,” focuses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century tastemakers who learned to manipulate rhetorics of democratization and categories of cultural distinction to gain control of institutional site of aesthetic prestige. Authors and tastemakers of particular interest include John Ruskin, Vernon Lee, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Roger Fry, Matthew Prichard, Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, Ford Madox Ford, Bernard Berenson, Ernest Hemingway, and Gertrude Stein.

My teaching and research areas include Victorian literature and culture, relations of literature to the visual arts, histories of gossip, scandal, and celebrity, modernism, transatlanticism, the history and literature of female sociopathy, and reading and writing the modern essay.

Middle English poetry and prose; especially lyric; medieval politics in literature; multilingualism; manuscript studies; book history

Romanticism; modernism; poetry and poetics; translation.

Migrant literature; children’s literature; tragedy; 20th-/21st-century, mythmaking; American literature

Early modern; 17th-century English literature; Milton; Herbert; theology and literature; prosody; literature and contemporary philosophy; digital humanities

Twentieth-/21st-century literature; diasporic; intellectual history; Marxism.

Feminism and queer theory; 20th-/21st-century literature; transatlantic studies; media studies; poetry

Twentieth-century global Anglophone; modernism; histories and theories of the novel; Marxism; Korean literature and pop culture

Twentieth-/21st-century; poetry; African-American

Poetics; prosody; modernism

Twentieth-/21st-century novel; American literature; philosophy and literary theory

Eighteenth/-19th-century British literature; particularly Pope, Johnson, Austen, Wordsworth, Keats, Tennyson, Eliot and Arnold; translation, moral didacticism and the history of tragedy.

African American literature and religion

Old and Middle English literature; prosody and poetics; manuscript studies; textual criticism; history of the English language.

Twentieth-/21st-Century

Nineteenth-/20th/21st-century African American literature; afrofuturism; speculative fiction and visual media across the African diaspora.

Poetry; American literature; political theory; linguistics.

Early modern literature; drama; history of the book; the classical tradition; identity and cognition; literary history and periodization; digital humanities

Old English; Middle English; history of emotions

Nineteenth-century American literature; history of the book; media studies.

Contemporary fiction; media studies; history of the book

Early modern literature and history; English Renaissance; Milton; history of the book; intersections of oral and literary tradition. 

Early Modern; history of science; gender and sexuality; comparative literature.

American literature and religion, race, and fanaticism

Nineteenth-/20th-century American literature; modernism; world literature; digital humanities; sociology of literature

Romanticism; 18th-century; contemporary poetry; prosody and poetics; philosophy; Marxism.

Twentieth-/21st-Century American literature

Blake; Romantic & Victorian; poetics; word and image; 19th century media; sound studies; animals & eco criticism; book history