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Education

• Ph.D., University of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky.
• M.A., University of Kentucky
• B.A., Hanover College, Hanover, Ind.

Teaching Areas

• Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century British Literature
• Gender and Sexuality
• Gothic Literature
• Poetry
• The Novel
• Research Methods
• First-Year Writing
• Place Studies

Research Interests/Professional Activities

• Literature of the long nineteenth century, especially the works of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell and Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• Gender and Sexuality Studies
• Material Culture Studies
• Curriculum Design

Publications

• “Wives, Daughters, and Worsted-Work:  The Trouble with Victorian Handiwork Culture.” Victorians Institute Journals. December 2019
• “His and Hers: Gendered Ownership in Dombey and Son and Lady Audley’s Secret.” Victorian Literature and Culture. June 2017.
• “First-Year Symposium: One College’s Response to the Perceived ‘Deficit’ in Civic Education.” Co-authored with Joe Roidt, Marty DeNicolo, Amy Kittle, and Brent Saindon. Communication Education. October 2016.
• “Inherited Emotions: George Eliot and the Politics of Heirlooms.” Nineteenth-Century Literature. March 2010.