Research
Interests:
Byron,
theory and aesthetics of terrorism; 19th century and fin-de-siecle
British fiction and culture; colonial discourse and postcolonial
theory; theorizing the female body; The Victorian Novel;
the culture of libertinism in Britain and France; opera
studies and critical theory; literature and medicine
Selection
of Recent & Reoccuring Courses:
British
Literature Survey 1700-1945 (ENG 265); Topics in Romanticism
(ENG 417); Topics in the Victorian Novel (ENG 416); Women’s
Studies in Literature (ENG 423); Introduction to Critical
Theory (Eng 607); graduate seminars on Romanticism, the
Gothic, the Victorian novel and postmodern theory
Selected
Publications:
The
Exotic Woman in Nineteenth Century British Fiction and
Culture: A
Reconsideration. University Press of New England,
2005.
“Chemical
Seductions: Exoticism and the Female Poisoner in Wilkie
Collins’ Armadale and The Legacy of Cain”
in Reality’s Dark Light: The Sensational Wilkie
Collins ed. Don Cox and Maria Bachman, University
of Tennessee Press, 2003.
“Infection
as Resistance: Medical Discourse: Indian Courtesans and
Flawed Memsahibs in Flora Steel’s Colonial Fiction,”
in ARIEL: A Review of English Literature. (July
1999).
“Tropical
Ovaries: Gynecological Degeneration and Lady Arabella’s
Female Difficulties in Bram Stoker’s The Lair of
the White Worm,” in Women’s Experience
of Modernity: New Voices, New Views ed. Ann Ardis
and Leslie Lewis, Johns Hopkins, 2002. |
