Education: B.A. and M.A., Brown; Ph.D., Yale.

Research interests: 19th-century literature, the novel, women's studies, critical theory, film.

Book: Outside the Pale: Cultural Exclusion, Gender Difference, and the Victorian Woman Writer (1993).

Essays: “Unveiling Maternal Desires: Hitchcock and American Domesticity,” in Hitchcock's America (1999); "From Simianized Irish to Orient Despots: Heathcliff, Rochester , and Racial Difference," Novel (1992); " Frankenstein and Marx's Theories of Alienated Labor," Approaches to Teaching FRANKENSTEIN (1990); "Production Replaces Creation: Market Forces and Frankenstein as a Critique of Romanticism," Nineteenth-Century Contexts (1989).

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