Education:   Ph.D. In English, Yale University, June, 1984
Graduate courses, Breadloaf School of English, Summers 1975-77
M.A. In Comparative Literature, Brown University, June 1973
B.A, in Russian and Comparative Literature, Brown University, June 1970

Awards:

Recommended for receipt of ATLAS, April 2007, April 2008
Finalist Faulkner-Wisdom Prize, August 2006
Regent's Research Grant, Fall 2004
Nicholson Award, Outstanding Faculty Member, 2002-2003
H. M. “Hub” Cotton Award for Faculty Excellence, 2002
Faculty Honor Roll, 2001, 2002
EGSA Award for Graduate Faculty Excellence, 1997.
Outside the Pale Nominated for MLA First Book Award, 1994

Areas of Interest: Social History and the Victorian Novel, Nineteenth-Century Women Novelists (Shelley, Trollope, the Brontes, Gaskell, Eliot, Oliphant), Money in the Novel, Victorian Vulgarity, The Victorian Canon (exclusions as well as inclusions), Political Economy and the Novel, Anthropology and the Novel, the Novel of Manners from Austen to James

Books:

In Print:

Outside the Pale : Cultural Exclusion, Gender Difference, and the Victorian Woman Writer , Cornell University Press, hardback Dec. 1993, paperback, Jan. 1994.

Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre: A Casebook, Oxford University Press, February, 2006.

In Progress:

Victorian Vulgarity . (An anthology of critical essays co-edited with Susan Bernstein. University of Wisconsin). Contract signed with Ashgate Press, April 2007. Manuscript in press, forthcoming 2009.

The Vulgar Question of Money: Heiresses from Austen to James (4 of 6 chapters completed, anticipate submission to press, fall 2008).

Articles:

In Print:
“Horses and Sexual/Social Dominance,” in Victorian Animal Dreams: Representations of Animals in Victorian Literature and Culture, ed. Deborah Denenholz Morse and Martin A. Danahay, Ashgate Press. 2007, 144-66.

“The Odd Couple: Anthony Trollope and Henry James.” The Henry James Review . 27:1 (2006): 10-23. (Article requested by journal).       

“Broken Ornaments,” The Southern Review 39.4 (Autumn 2003): 839-50.

“Dressing Up: Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Oliphant's Phoebe Junior ,” Victorian Literature and Culture 30.1 (2002): 305-323.   

“Buying Brains: Trollope, Oliphant, and Vulgar Victorian Commerce,” Victorian Studies 44.1 (Autumn 2001): 76-97.

“Austen's Powers: Engaging with Adam Smith in Debates about Wealth and Virtue,” Novel 34.1 (Fall 2000): 5-27.  

Unveiling Maternal Desire: Hitchcock and American Domesticity," in Hitchcock's America , ed. Jonathan Freedman and Rick Millington, Oxford University Press, 1999.

 “White Chimpanzees and Oriental Despots: Racial Stereotyping and Edward Rochester,” St. Martin's Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism Jane Eyre , ed. Beth Newman, 1996.

“From Simianized Irish to Oriental Despots: Heathcliff, Rochester, the Brontes and Race.” Novel (Winter 1992): 1-17.

"Production Replaces Creation: Market Forces and Frankenstein as a Critique of Romanticism." Nineteenth-Century Contexts 12.1 (Spring 1989): 27-33.

" Frankenstein and Marx's Theories of Alienated Labor," Approaches to Teaching Frankenstein . Ed. Stephen Behrendt. New York: MLA, 1990. 132-141.

In Progress:
“A Woman of Money: Miss Dunstable, Thomas Holloway, and Victorian Commercial Wealth,” in Trollope and Gender, ed. Margaret Marwick and Deborah Denenholz Morse, Ashgate, forthcoming 2008 (manuscript in press.)

“Rich Woman/Poor Woman: Towards an Anthropology of the Nineteenth-Century Marriage Plot,” forthcoming March 2009 in PMLA cluster on Victorian Literature.

“Introduction” and 'Vulgarizing Christianity,” in Victorian Vulgarity, ed. Susan David Berstein and Elsie B. Michie, forthcoming Ashgate, 2009.

“Vulgarity and Money,” in The Cambridge Companion to Anthony Trollope, ed. Carolyn Dever and Lisa Niles, contract signed April 26, 2007, article due July 2008.

Invited talks/Sessions organized:
“Jane Austen and Adam Smith,” Nineteenth Century Reading Group, Rice University, October, 1998 (invited speaker).

“Do Clothes Make the Woman? Dress and Class in Oliphant and Hardy,” CUNY Graduate Conference on Victorian Fashion, Spring 1999, New York, N.Y. (Invited Speaker)

“A Singular Life Made Multiple: Trollope and Lady Frances Waldegrave,” Victorians' Institute, Oct. 2001, UNC, Chapel Hill, N.C. (invited speaker).

“Antipodean Marriage Plots in John Caldigate and Jane Eyre ,” Victorian Antipodes Conference, Sydney, Australia (invited participant.)

“The Vulgar Question of Money,” plenary speaker, Conference on Trollope and Gender, University of Exeter, July, 2006.

Organized panels on Victorian Vulgarity for the Narrative Conference, 2001; MLA, 2001; NAVSA, 2003; The Dickens Project, 2008.

Professional memberships: MLA (Modern Language Association)—invited to run for the division on Anthropology and Literature; SSNL (Society for the Study of Narrative Literature): INCS (Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies)—board member, vice president, president; NAVSA (North American Victorian Studies Association); The Dickens Project (one of three faculty members representing LSU).

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