Research

Areas of Research
  • Poetics and the Visual Arts
  • 19th-Century Literature
  • Feminist and Queer Theory
  • Digital Humanities
  • Writing Pedagogy
Publications
  • “‘Lit by a fury and a thought’: Resistance to Marital Gaslighting in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Aurora Leigh and Amy Levy’s ‘Xantippe.’” Forthcoming in Victorian Gaslighting: Genealogy of an Injustice. Edited by Diana Bellonby, Nora Gilbert, and Tara MacDonald. Albany: SUNY Press, 2024.
  • “Michael Field’s Love Lyrics.” Forthcoming in Michael Field in Context. Edited by Sarah Parker. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024.
  • “Queer Temporality in Victorian Love and Marriage Poems” with Pearl Chaozon Bauer. Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 44.2 (2022).
  • “‘Betwixt us Two’: Whym Chow, Metonymy, and the Amatory Sonnet Tradition.” In Michael Field,  Decadent Moderns. Edited by Sarah Parker and Ana Parejo Vadillo, Ohio University Press, 2019.
  • “From Distracted to Recursive Reading: Facilitating Knowledge Transfer through Annotation Software” with Chelsea Skalak. Distracted Reading: Acts of Attention in the Age of the Internet, special issue of Digital Humanities Quarterly, edited by Marion Thain, 12.2 (2018).
  • Review of The Victorian Verse-Novel: Aspiring to Life, by Stefanie Markovits. Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 40.4 (2018).
  • “The Victorian Family in Queer Time: Secrets, Sisters, and Lovers in The Woman in White and Fingersmith;” with Lauren N. Hoffer in Queer Victorian Families: Curious Relations in Literature edited by Duc Dau and Shale Preston; Routledge, 2015.  
  • Instructor’s Manual. Writing Analytically, 8th ed. With Jill Stephen and David Rosenwasser. Boston: Cengage Learning, 2018.
  • Instructor’s Manual for Writing Analytically with Readings, 3rd ed. with David Rosenwasser and Jill Stephen. Cengage, 2015.
  • “Writing Assignments” in A Guide to Teaching First-Year Composition: Strategies for Promoting Student Success in the Writing Classroom. Cengage, 2014.
  • “A Reflection on the Work of Yale Professor Sam See (1979-2013)” in Reviews & Responses; UNIversitas: The University of Northern Iowa Journal of Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity; volume 9, 2014.
DH Projects