RESEARCH INTERESTS
Eighteenth-century literature and Romantic period British literature; history of the novel; women’s writing; feminist and gender studies; cultural studies.
PARTIAL LIST OF PUBLICATIONS and PRESENTATIONS
Books:
The Economy of Character: Novels, Market Culture, and the Business of Inner Meaning, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. (1999 Winner of the Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book.)
Associate Editor, with Jack Stillinger, of "The Romantic Period," The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 8th edition. New York: W. W. Norton, (2006).
Editor of a new edition of Jane Austen's Persuasion for the Oxford World's Classics Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Editor, Janeites: Austen's Disciples and Devotees, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000
Co-editor, with William B. Warner, Cultural Institutions of the Novel, Durham: Duke University Press, 1996.
Selected Articles:
"Historical Novelist," in The Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley, ed. Esther Schor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. 135-50.
"Gothic Libraries and National Subjects," Studies in Romanticism, 40, 1 (Spring 2001): 29-48.
"Personal Effects and Sentimental Fictions," Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 12 (2000): 345-68.
"Domesticating Fictions and Nationalizing Women: Edmund Burke, Property, and the Reproduction of Englishness," in Romanticism, Race, and Imperial Culture, ed. Alan Richardson and Sonia Hofkosh. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1996. Pp. 40-71.
"'Beating the track of the alphabet': Samuel Johnson, Tourism, and the ABCs of Modern Authority," ELH, 57 (1990): 357-404.
Partial List of Awards:
John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, 2007
Northeast Association of Graduate Schools Graduate Teaching Award
State University of New York Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching
Benjamin N. Duke Fellowship, National Humanities Center
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