Areas of Interest:
British Victorian literature, the work of Joseph Conrad, detective and sensation fiction, short story
and novel genres, gender studies
Spring 2012 Classes:
EH 102 - Comp II
EH 216 - British Lit II
EH 352 - Victorian Poetry
Recent Publications:
Articles
"Suicide, Feminism, and 'the miserable dependence of girls' in 'The Idiots,' The Secret Agent, and Chance." Forthcoming in The
Conradian: The Journal of the Joseph Conrad Society
(UK)
37.2 (2012).
"'Dead men have no children' in Conrad's 'The Idiots' and 'Amy Foster.'" Forthcoming in the Conradiana Winter 2012.
"Terror, Nostalgia, and the Pursuit of Sherlock Holmes in Sherlock."The Transmedia Adventures of Sherlock. Eds. Kristina Busse and Louisa Stein. McFarland, 2012. 70-84.
"The 'test of feminine investigation' in Orczy's Lady Molly of
Scotland Yard Stories." CLUES: A Journal of Detection 26.4 (2009): 24-34.
"Nation, Identity, and the Fascination with Forensic Science in
Sherlock Holmes and CSI." International Journal of Cultural
Studies 10.3 (2007): 365-82.
"The Female Offender, the New Woman, and Winnie Verloc in
Conrad's The Secret Agent." The
Conradian: The Journal of the Joseph Conrad Society
(UK)
32.1 (2007).
Simultaneously published in The Secret Agent: Centennial Essay. Eds.
A. H. Simmons & J. H. Stape Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007.
"From the Lady and the Law to the Lady Detective: Gender and Voice in
Collins and Dickens." Storytelling: A Critical Journal of Popular
Narrative 6.1 (2006): 19-31.
"Failed Detectives and Dangerous Females: Wilkie Collins, Arthur
Conan Doyle and the Detective Short Story." Journal of the Short
Story in English 45 (2005): 13-28.
"The Anarchist's Wife: Joseph Conrad's Debt to Sensation
Fiction in The Secret Agent." Conradiana: A Journal of Joseph
Conrad Studies 36.1-2 (2004): 51-63.
"That 'Blood-Stained Inanity': Detection, Repression, and Conrad's The
Secret Agent." Conradiana: A Journal of Joseph Conrad Studies 31:2 (1999): 114-19.
Books Edited
Scribbling Women and the Form of the Short Story: Approaches to
American and British Short Fiction by Women Writers, a critical anthology
of fourteen essays focusing on women American and British short fiction
writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Lang, 2008.
Reviews and Other Writing
Book Review of Homosexuality in the Life and Work of Joseph Conrad: Love Between the Lines. Conradiana: A Journal of Joseph Conrad Studies 42.1-2
(2010): 171-77.
Book Review of Modernism, Media, and Propaganda: British Narrative from 1900 to 1945. Conradiana: A Journal of Joseph Conrad Studies 42.1-2
(2010): 184-87.
Joseph Conrad's "Amy Foster." Companion to the British
Short Story and Short Fiction. Ed. Andrew Maunder. New York: Facts on File, 2007.
Book Review of Imperial Desire: Dissident Sexualities and Colonial Literature and Conrad's Narratives of
Difference: Not Exactly Tales for Boys. Conradiana: A Journal of Joseph Conrad Studies 36.3
(2004): 251-61.
"Shirley Ann Grau." Dictionary of Literary Biography: American
Short Story Writers Since World War II. Eds. Patrick Meanor and Gwen
Crane. Second Series. Detroit: Gale, 2000. 173-79.
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