Area of Expertise

• Nineteenth Century American Literature

My interests include:

• 18th- and 19th-century American literary history
• Visual culture
• Performance studies
• Social identities of race

Publications

• “’Blocks of this Korl’: Substance as Feminist Symbol in “Life in the Iron Mills.” Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 49, no. 7, 2020, pp. 736-47.
• “Emily Dickinson’s ‘’Twas warm — at first — like Us—’ (Fr614),” The Explicator, vol. 75, no. 4, 2017, pp. 248-51. 
• “Emily Dickinson’s ‘I’ve known a Heaven, like a Tent –’ (Fr257),” The Explicator, vol. 75, no. 2, 2017, pp. 125-28. (with Dr. Ann Beebe).