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EDUCATION:
PhD Stanford (Comparative Literature, 1990)
AM English and American Literature (Harvard, 1983)
BA (Honours), English, University of Alberta 1982; Free University of Berlin 1987-8; University of Freiburg (Germany), 1979-80

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INTERESTS:
--History of the anglophone and European novel (including Scotland, Ireland, and the British empire; esp. 18th C., Romanticism, 20th century, and history of women's writing)
--The modernist novel and 2oth C. social history
--The history of children's literature (18th C. to present)
--British and European cinema
--Visual culture (cinema culture; history of painting; installation and exhibition practices)
--Canadian literature (anglophone and francophone)
--Marxist theory and cultural traditions; the Cold War
--Literature/culture of Germany and Central Europe

I work across the modern period (late 18th C. through the present), with particular interests in the history of the British and European novel; the anglophone fiction (especially Scotland, Ireland, Canada); European film history; literature's relationship to social and cultural history, visual culture and music; nationalism, regionalism and traditionalism. I'm currently researching the history of children's literature, Jane Austen's colonial reception, and the institutionalization of Marxist aesthetics in postwar Central Europe.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

--Cambridge Companion to Fiction of the Romantic Period (co-edited with Richard Maxwell, in press, Cambridge UP)

--Bardic Nationalism: The Romantic Novel and the British Empire
(Princeton University Press, 1997)

--"City Scenes: Commerce, Modernity, and the Birth of the Picture Book," in Richard Maxwell, ed., The Victorian Illustrated Book. New Explorations (University of Virginia Press, 2002), 332-384.

--"The Virago Jane Austen," in Deidre Lynch, ed., Janeites: The Austen Industry and Its Audiences (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000), 140-165.

--"Visits to the Juvenile Library: Romantic Bookselling and the Making of Child Readers," forthcoming James Chandler, ed., Cambridge History of British Romanticism (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming)

-- "The peripheral rise of the novel: Scotland, Ireland, and the politics of form" in Liam MacInvernay and Raymond Ryan, eds., Ireland and Scotland: Culture and Society 1707-2000 (Dublin: Four Courts, 2004), pp. 164-182 and (in Italian) in Franco Moretti, ed. Il romanzo, Vol. III: Storia e geografia (Turin: Giulio Einaudi, 2002), 205-232.

UNDERGRADUATE COURSES: Austen and Brontë in the World; 18th-Century European Novel; British Cinema; Canadian Literature; World Literatures

GRADUATE COURSES: The History of Children's Literature: The Anglo-American Tradition in European Context; Jane Austen and the British Empire; European Literature Without the Nation; The Aesthetics of Occupation: The Fascist Occupation of Europe and the Aesthetics of Everyday Life; British Cinema