English

EDUCATION:
Ph.D., Literatures in English, Rutgers University, 2002
B.A., English and American Literature, Brown University, 1992

INTERESTS: Victorian literature and culture and postcolonial theory. My interests also include modernism; realism; the history of the novel; global Anglophone literature; and pedagogy. Currently, my research focuses on the relationship between global ideals and the transformation of literary form between the Victorian and contemporary periods. My book project examines the ways in which London serves as a figure for the world in nineteenth-century literature, thereby informing Victorian and more recent conceptions of cosmopolitanism. A second project will focus on the culture of transnational comparison in Victorian literary criticism.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

--The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad. (Guelph, Ontario: Broadview Press, forthcoming 2009)

--Teaching Literature: A Companion. Co-edited with Ann Dean. ( New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2002)

--“Debt in the Teaching of World Literature: Collaboration in the Context of Uneven Development.” Co-authored with Karin Gosselink. Pedagogy (Fall 2006)

--“ London Mysteries and International Conspiracies: James, Doyle and the Aesthetics of Cosmopolitanism.” Nineteenth-Century Contexts 26:2 (June 2004): 125-148

--“Wordsworth at the Panoramas: The Sublime Spectacle of the World.” Genre 36 (Fall/Winter 2003): 295-316.

UNDERGRADUATE COURSES: Writing about Literature, The European Literary Tradition, The Victorian City, The Victorian Fin de Siècle, International Britain, Representations of Islam