Academic History

Ph.D., University of Oregon
B.S., M.F.A., University of Alaska Fairbanks
At St. Thomas since 2005

Expertise/Specialties

Victorian Studies
Gender Studies
Nineteenth-Century Publishing/Media History
History of the Novel
Literary Geography/Architecture
Gothic Literature

Awards & Honors

Nominee, Faculty Undergraduate Research Award, University of St. Thomas, 2008
Research Assistance Grant, University of St. Thomas, 2006
Faculty Member of the Year, United Academics, University of Alaska Southeast, 2005
Graduate Dissertation Prize, Graduate School, University of Oregon, 1997
Ola Love Fellowship, American Association of University Women, 1996
Outstanding Teacher of Composition, University of Oregon, 1995; finalist, 1994

Selected Publications

Book:
First-Person Anonymous: Women Writers and Victorian Print Media, 1830-70, Ashgate Publishing, Nineteenth-Century Series, February 2004.

Articles:

“Rooms of the Past: Victorian Women Writers, Historic Preservation and the Reconstruction of Domestic Space.”  Clio’s Daughters: Victorian Women Making History.  Ed. Lynette Felber.  Delaware UP, 2007.  235-57.

“Victorian Drama.” Year’s Work in English Studies: 2006 86.1 (2008): 64-71.

“RSVP Bibliography: 2003-05.” Victorian Periodicals Review 39.3 (2006): 193-256.

"The Woman of Letters at Home: Harriet Martineau and the Lake District." Victorian Literature and Culture 34.1 (2006): 291-310.

"Dialogues on Gender and Reform: Tait's Edinburgh Magazine." Victorian Periodicals Review 38.3 (2005): 263-79.

"Gender and the Politics of Literary Fame: Christina Rossetti and the Germ."  Critical Survey 13.2 (2001): 61-77.

"Ebenezer Elliott: Working-Class Poetry and the Politics of Gender."  Victorian Poetry 39.2 (2001): 303-318. 

"Harriet Martineau and the Victorian Periodical Press."  Defining Centres: Nineteenth-Century Media and the Construction of Identities.  Eds. Laurel Brake, William Bell, and David Finkelstein. New York: Macmillan, 2000. 154-64.

"Gendered Observations: Harriet Martineau and the Woman Question."  Victorian Women Writers and the 'Woman Question.'  Ed. Nicola Thompson.  Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999. 80-98.

"Authorship, Gender and Identity: George Eliot in the 1850s."  Women's Writing 3.2 (1997): 145-60.

"Victorian Women Writers and the Periodical Press: The Case of Harriet Martineau."  Nineteenth-Century Prose 24.1 (1997): 39-50.

"Wandering Women: Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journals and the Discourse on Female Vagrancy." Women's Writing 3.1 (1996): 63-77.

Selected Presentations

“The Celebrity Cause: Octavia Hill, Virtual Landscapes, and the Periodical Press,” Research Society for Victorian Periodicals Conference, University of Roehampton (UK), July 5, 2008.

“Literary Gossip: Women and Celebrity News at the Fin de Siècle.” North American Victorian Studies Association Conference, University of Victoria, October 13, 2007, and the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals Conference, Virginia Commonwealth University, September 15, 2007.

“Interdisciplinarity Now: Richard Stein.” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, University of Missouri, Kansas City, April 21, 2007.

“Yesterday’s Woman, Yesterday’s Man: Representations of the Authorial Body in the British Medical Journal.”  Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, CUNY Graduate Center, September 16, 2006.

"Rooms of the Past: Victorian Women Writers, Historic Preservation and the Reconstruction of Domestic Space." North American Victorian Studies Association, University of Virginia, September 30, 2005.

"The Politics of Domesticity: Periodicals, Tourism, and the Reconstruction of Carlyle's House." Research Society for Victorian Periodicals Conference, George Washington University, September 16, 2005.

"The Virtual City: Literary Tourism and the Construction of 'Dickensland'." Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States, University of Washington, October 20, 2004.

"Literary Tourism, Gender, and the Haunting of Victorian London." Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century British Women Writers Conference, University of Georgia, March 26, 2004.

"Literary Tourism and the Victorian Periodical Press." Research Society for Victorian Periodicals Conference, University of Alberta, September 19, 2003.

"Christian Johnstone, Tait's Edinburgh Magazine and the Origins of British Feminism." Society for the History of Reading and Publishing Conference, University of London, July 11, 2002.

"The Woman of Letters at Home: Harriet Martineau and the Literary Tour." British Women Writers Conference, University of Wisconsin, Madison, April 18, 2002.