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Education
Ph.D., English, SUNY Stony Brook
M.A., English, Claremont Graduate School
B.A., English, UCLA
Scholarly Focus
- British Modernism
- New Woman Fiction
- Suffrage Literature
- Modernist Periodicals
Publications
Book
British Fiction and Cross-Cultural Encounters: Ethnographic Modernism from Wells to Woolf . New York: Palgrave, 2008.
Scholarly Edition and Edited Collection
Editor of the Broadview Press edition of H. G. Wells’ Ann Veronica . Broadview Press, 2015.
Co-editor, with Faith Binckes, Women, Periodicals, and Print Culture in Britain, 1890s-1920s: the Modernist Period . Edinburgh University Press, May 2019.
Recent Articles and Essays
“ Teaching Votes for Women! and Suffrage Propaganda in the Modernist Classroom.” Approaches to Teaching Modernist Women’s Writing , edited by Janine Utell. Forthcoming MLA, 2020.
“Beatrice Hastings: Debating Suffrage in The New Age and Votes for Women .” Women, Periodicals, and Print Culture in Britain, 1890s-1920s: the Modernist Period , edited by Faith Binckes and Carey Snyder, Edinburgh University Press, 2019, pp. 242-257.
“The Iconoclasm of H. G. Wells.” Literary and Cultural Alternatives to Modernism: Unsettling Presences , edited by Marky Sandy, Tony Patterson, Kostas Boyiopoulos, Routledge, 2019, pp 201-213.
Co-written with Leif Sorenson, “Letters to the Editor as a Serial Form.” Journal of Modern Periodical Studies , vol. 9, no. 1, 2019, pp. 123-146.
“Beatrice Hastings’s Sparring Pseudonyms, Feminism, and The New Age .” Beatrice Hastings: On the Life and Work of a 20th Century Master , edited by Erika Jo Brown and Ben Johnson, Pleiades Press, 2016, pp. 170-187.
“ Brave New World and Vanity Fair : A ‘draught that will make you […] lighthearted and gay.’” Brave New World: Contexts and Legacies , edited by Jonathan Greenberg and Nathan Waddell, Palgrave, 2016, pp. 127-148.
“Katherine Mansfield, Rhythm, and Metropolitan Primitivism.” Journal of Modern Periodical Studies , vol. 5, no. 2, 2014, pp. 138-159.
“Katherine Mansfield, D. H. Lawrence, and Imperial Nostalgia.” Modernism and Nostalgia: Bodies, Locations, Aesthetics , edited by Tammy Clewell, Palgrave, 2013, pp. 131-148.
“‘More Undraped Females and Champagne Glasses’: Ford Madox Ford’s Ambivalent Affair with Mass Culture.” Ford Madox Ford and America , edited by Sara Haslam and Seamus O'Malley, Rodopi, 2012, pp. 139-153.
“Katherine Mansfield and the New Age School of Satire.” Journal of Modern Periodical Studies , vol. 1, no. 2, 2010, pp. 125-158.
Courses
- ENG 252, British Literature Survey, 1688-Present
- ENG 315, 20th Century British Literature
- ENG 314, 19th Century British Literature
- ENG 460, Expatriates in Paris, 1909-1939
- ENG 460, Primitivism in Modern Art and Literature
- ENG 460, Gender and Modernism
- ENG 464, Woolf and Winterson
- ENG 464, Woolf and Forster
- ENG 464, Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf, and Jean Rhys
- ENG 570/774, Modernist Character in Shreds (Modernist Experimentation in Character)
- ENG 570/774, Going Native: Ethnographic Modernism
- ENG 570/774, Modernism with a Baedaker: Exploration, Travel, and Tourism in Modern British Literature
- ENG 570/774, Twentieth Century British Literature: Debunking the Victorians
- ENG 570/727, Modernist Time, Memory, and Narration
- ENG 5720/7270: New Woman Fiction