Education
Ph. D. in English, University of Tennessee, 1999
M. A. in English, Texas A&M University, 1994
B. A. in History, Summa Cum Laude, Texas A&M University, 1992
Scholarly Focus
- Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Literature
- Literature and Health
- Satire
Publications
Books
Performing Libertinism in the Court of Charles II: Politics, Drama, and Sexuality (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)
Literary Culture: Reading and Writing Literary Arguments . Gen. Ed. Linda L. Bensel-Meyers. Eds. Susan Giesemann North and Jeremy W. Webster (Needham Heights, MA: Simon & Schuster Custom Publishing, 1999)
Articles and Book Chapters
“Han Leia Shot First: Transmedia Storytelling and the National Public Radio Dramatization of Star Wars,” Star Wars and the History of Transmedia Storytelling , Eds. D.A. Hassler-Forest and Sean A. Guynes, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2017. 49-59.
“Rewriting Shylock: Thomas Holcroft, Semitic Discourse, and Anti-Semitism on the English Stage.” Re-Viewing Thomas Holcroft, 1745-1809: Essays on Thomas Holcroft’s Work and Life . Eds. Arnold Markley and Miriam Wallace. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2012. 71-85.
“In and Out of the Bed-chamber: Staging Libertine Desire in Restoration Comedy,” Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies 12.2 (2012): 77-96.
“Queering the Seventeenth Century: Historicism, Queer Theory, and Early Modern Literature,” Literature Compass 5.2 (2008): 376-393.
“The ‘Lustful Buggering Jew’: Anti-Semitism, Gender, and Sodomy in Restoration Political Satire,” Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 6.1 (2006): 106-124.
“Teaching Pamela and the History of Sexuality.” Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Samuel Richardson . Eds. Jocelyn Harris and Lisa Zunshine. New York: MLA, 2006. 56-62.
“Rochester’s Easy King: Rereading the (Sexual) Politics of the Scepter Lampoon,” English Language Notes 42.4 (June 2005): 1-19. Rpt. in Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800 . Vol. 140 (Detroit: Gale, 2008): 301-309.
“Sentimentalizing Patriarchy: Patriarchal Anxiety and Filial Obligation in Sir Charles Grandison ,” Eighteenth-Century Fiction 17.3 (April 2005): 425-442.
Courses
Undergraduate
- ENG 1510: Writing and Rhetoric I
- ENG 2200: Introduction to Literature and Medicine
- ENG 3060J: Women and Writing
- ENG 3070J: Writing and Research in English Studies
- ENG 3130: English Literature: 1660-1800
- ENG 3260: Lesbian and Gay Literature
- WGSS 4900: Special Topics in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (Queering/ing Leadership)
Graduate
Topics have included Patriarchy and Restoration Literature; Historicizing Gender and Sexuality in British Literature, 1660-1750; God and Sex in English Literature, 1660-1750; Unnatural Affections in the Age of Sensibility; and WGSS 5900: Queer/ing Leadership.