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Faculty & Staff

Areas of Expertise

19th Century American Literature and Culture; Women Writers; History of Journalism; Sensationalism and Sentimentalism; Print Culture Studies; Feminist and Queer Theory

Degrees

MA, PhD Brandeis University
BA, Northwestern University

Professional Publications & Contributions

• “‘Metamorphosis of the Newsboy’: E.D.E.N. Southworth’s The Hidden Hand and the Antebellum Story-Paper.” Studies in American Fiction 37.1 (Fall 2010): 29-53. (Winner of the RSAP-Proquest Prize for best article on American periodicals published by a pre-tenure scholar in 2010)
• “‘Pretty as Pictures’: Family Photography and Southern Postmemory in Katherine Anne Porter’s ‘Old Mortality.’” Southern Literary Journal 40.2 (Spring 2008): 151-165.
• "Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Yellow Newspaper.” Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers . 24.1 (June 2007): 72-92.

Additional Information

 

Current Projects

"The Novel and the News: Sentiment and Objectivity in American Women's Writing Before 1900" (book manuscript in preparation) and currently at work on a second book project on nineteenth-century anti-coming-of-age novels.

Courses

Undergraduate: Understanding Literature, American Romanticism, American Women Writers and Culture; Six American Authors; Special Topics in American Literature: Literature and Journalism
Graduate: American Romanticism; Books, Manuscripts, Libraries

Review Essays, Book Reviews, Encyclopedia Entries

• Profile of Elizabeth Keckley. Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers. 29.1 (forthcoming January 2012).
• Review of Style, Gender, and Fantasy in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing by Dorri Beam. Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature (forthcoming).
• Review of Wild Unrest: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Making of “The Yellow Wall-Paper” by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz. American Literary Realism (forthcoming).
• “Spectacular Fictions.” Review of Frantic Panoramas
: American Literature and Mass Culture, 1870-1920 by Nancy Bentley. Criticism 51.4 (Fall 2010): 697-701.
• Entry, “Federalist Party.” Encyclopedia of the Early Republic and Antebellum America. Ed. Christopher Bates. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe (2010).
• Review of Front-Page Girls: Women Journalists in American Culture and Fiction, 1880-1930 by Jean Marie Lutes and The Female Investigator in Literature, Film, and Popular Culture by Lisa M. Dresner. American Literature 79.4 (December 2007): 847-849.

Professional Appointments

Book Review Editor, Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers
President, Charlotte Perkins Gilman Society