Education

PhD, Harvard University
MA, Harvard University
BA, Wake Forest University

Area(s) of Specialty

19th C British Literature and Culture
History of the Novel
Regional American Literature (New England and the American South)

Contact Information

Office: C112 Tribble Hall
Phone: (336) 758-3919
Email

Courses Taught at WFU

ENG 743 Victorian Sensation
ENG 353 Nineteenth Century British Fiction
ENG 300 Portraits of the Artist in British Literature
ENG 190 The Art of Short Fiction
ENG 111 Tales of Mystery and Terror

Selected Publications

"'The Poets are With Us': Frederick Douglass and John Milton." Modern Language Studies 38:2 (Winter 2009): 12-27.

"'His Crime was a Thing Apart': Elizabeth Gaskell Writes a Father’s Life." Victorians Institute Journal, 36 (2008): 245-274.

"'Was ever hero in this fashion won?’: Alternative Sexualities in the Novels of George Meredith."Straight Writ Queer: Non-Normative Expressions of Heterosexuality in Literature, ed Richard Fantina.
Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland Press, 2006. 124-133.

Entries and reviews in The Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature (Greenwood, 2005), The Encyclopedia of African American Literature (Greenwood, 2005), and the Journal of British Studies (48.2, April 2009).