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Areas of Expertise

American literature and culture, especially the nineteenth-century novel; race and sexuality studies; the history of the family

Degrees

PhD, Brandeis University

Professional Publications & Contributions

• American Blood: The Ends of the Family in American Literature, 1850-1900. Oxford University Press (forthcoming).
• “Another Long Bridge: Reproduction and Reversion in Pauline Hopkins’s Hagar’s Daughter.” Early African American Print Culture. Eds. Lara Langer Cohen and Jordan Stein. University of Pennsylvania Press (2012): 192-202.
• “The Transformation of American Family Property in The House of the Seven Gables.” ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 56:3 (September 2010).
• “‘So We Die before Our Own Eyes’: Willful Sterility in The Country of the Pointed Firs.” The New England Quarterly 82.2 (June 2009): 264-284.
• “Identifying Emma Dunham Kelley: Rethinking Race and Authorship.” PMLA 122 (May 2007): 728-741. (Winner of the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association 2008 Article Prize)
• Book reviews in Nineteenth-Century Contexts; Criticism; Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers; and Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture.

Additional Information

Conference presentations and invited talks:

Early African American Print Culture in Theory and Practice Symposium, McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania.
Pictures and Progress: Early Photography and African American Identity Symposium, Duke University.
C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists
Modernist Studies Association
American Literature Association
American Studies Association
African American Literature and Culture Society

Courses Taught:

American Romanticism; American Realism; American Modernism; Queer Theory; Sex, Family, and the Nation in American Fiction;
American Gothic Fiction; The Imagined Civil War.