Education
M.A., Wake Forest University, English, 2005
B.A., Yale University, English, 2003
Academic Programs
Biography
- Colorado State University-Pueblo, Visiting Assistant Professor of English, 2017-2018
- Antioch College, Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature, 2015-2016
Courses Taught at Western
Fall 2022:
- ENG 102–Academic Writing: American Short Stories
- ENG 148–Film and Culture: Hitchcock’s Adaptations
- ENG 250–Critical Approaches to Literature: Feminist Theory
- ENG 493–Senior Seminar I: Jane Austen
Spring 2023:
- ENG 102–Academic Writing: American Short Stories
- ENG 250–Critical Approaches to Literature: Feminist Theory
- ENG 371–Literary Theory and Criticism: Shakespeare
- ENG 494–Senior Seminar II: Futures
Publications
- I Do?: Women, Consent, and Marriage in Nineteenth-Century England. University of Toronto Press, 2024.
- Elizabeth Bennet’s Proposal Scenes and Nonconsensual Consent.” Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal, no. 42, 2020, pp. 194-206.
- “‘Nothing That She Could Allege Against Him in Judicious or Judicial Ears’: ‘Consensual’ Marital Abuse in Victorian Literature.” George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Studies, vol. 69, no. 1, 2017, pp. 89-119.
- “‘She Sins While She Remains Away’: Marital Consent, Restitution of Conjugal Rights, and Anthony Trollope’s Phineas Novels.” Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature, no. 129, Spring 2016, pp. 98-111.
- “‘When a Daughter Elopes to Gretna, Generally It Is a Wicked Thing’: Female Consent, Clandestine Marriage, and Susannah Frances Reynolds’s Gretna Green; Or, All for Love.” ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, vol. 28, no. 2, April-June 2015, pp. 79-86.
- “‘You Could Be Judas’: Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Black Slaveowner.” Southern Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the South, vol. 22, no. 1, Spring/Summer 2015, pp. 16-44.