Washington and Lee University
on sabbatical leave 2009-10A. B. (1984), Brown University
A. M. in Creative Writing (1986), Brown University
Ph.D. (1990), Harvard University
Contemporary British fiction, Victorian novels, postcolonial literature, narrative theory, the novel in English, psychological approaches to literary study.
English 350—Postcolonial Literature
English 351—World Fiction in English
English 355—Studies in British Fiction after 1900. See also 356
English 292—Topics in British Literature
English 260—Literary Approaches to Poverty
English 234—Children's Literature
English 232—The Novel. See also 207.
English 105—Composition and Literature: Reading the Golden Compass
Seminar and Capstone Topics
Thomas Hardy, Novelist and Poet
Romancing the Archive
Studying Literature in Action
The Brontës
George Eliot and her Times
Philip Pullman and C. S. Lewis: Rival Canons
Ulysses: Homer, Joyce, Walcott
A Comic Novel Sequence: Powell’s A Dance to the Music of Time
Bread Loaf School of English (Santa Fe, NM)
Ulysses: Homer, Joyce, Walcott. 2008 syllabus.
Contemporary British Fiction. 2007 syllabus.
Moderns according to the Contemporaries. 2008 syllabus.
Books
Empathy and the Novel. Oxford UP, 2007. Publisher's Information.
Milk Glass Mermaid. Lewis Clark P, 2007. Available through Amazon.
Narrative Form. Palgrave, 2003. Publisher's information.
Romances of the Archive in Contemporary British Fiction. U of Toronto P, 2001. Excerpts on the web. Paperback edition, 2003.
Victorian Renovations of the Novel: Narrative Annexes and the Boundaries of Representation. Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture 15. Ed. Gillian Beer and Catherine Gallagher. Cambridge UP, 1998. Paperback edition, 2005. NetLibrary information.
Selected Articles
"Strategic Empathizing: Techniques of Bounded, Ambassadorial, and Broadcast Narrative Empathy.” Deutsche Vierteljahrs Schrift 82.3 (Sept. 2008): 477-93.To be published in German translation in an edited collection, Empathie und Erzählung. [Empathy and Narrative], ed. Claudia Breger and Fritz Breithaupt (Freiburg/Breisgau: Rombach, forthcoming in 2009).
“Magical Values in Recent Romances of the Archive,” Unpacking the Library: Literatures and their Archives, ed. Sas Mays. Rodopi, forthcoming in 2009.
“Psychological Approaches to Thomas Hardy.” Ashgate Research Companion to Thomas Hardy. Ed. Rosemarie Morgan. Ashgate, forthcoming in 2009.
“Teaching Narrative Theory in the Undergraduate Literature Classroom.” Options for Teaching Narrative Theory. Eds. James Phelan, Brian McHale, and David Herman. MLA: forthcoming in 2010.
“A Theory of Narrative Empathy.” Narrative (Fall, 2006) 207-36.
“The Fantasy Man: The Strange Brilliance of John Crowley.” Commonweal (11 August 2006) 13-16.
“The Historical Turn in British Fiction.” Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction. Ed. James English. Blackwell, 2005. 167-87.
“‘I cannot eat my words but I do’: Food, Body and Word in the Novels of Jeanette Winterson.” Scenes of the Apple: Hunger and Appetite as Metaphor in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Women’s Writing. Ed. Tamar Heller and Patricia Moran. SUNY P, 2003. 167-79.
“Introduction.” Thomas Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd. Signet, 2002: vii-xvi.
“Quaker Dress, Sexuality, and the Domestication of Reform in the Victorian Novel.” Victorian Literature and Culture 30: 1 (2002): 211-36.
“The Risks of Enfranchisement: Reading Hardy's Mixen Lane.” Norton Critical Edition of Thomas Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge. Ed. Philip Mallett. NY: Norton, 2000.
“The Condition of India: Hardyan and Trollopian Realism in Rohinton Mistry and Vikram Seth.” Days to Recollect: Essays in Honour of Robert Schweik. Ed. Rosemarie Morgan. New Haven: The Hardy Association Press, 2000: 31-40.
“Peter Ackroyd and Catholic England: At Present, Living in the Past.” Catholic Writers Series. Commonweal (3 Nov. 2000): 14-19.
“Catching the Heart Off Guard: the Generous Vision of Seamus Heaney.” Catholic Writers Series. Commonweal (17 May 1996): 10-14.
“Ironies and Inversions: The Art of Anthony Burgess.” Commonweal (11 Feb. 1994): 9-12.
“Inescapable Responsibility.” Michael S. Harper Special Issue. Callaloo 13: 4 (Fall 1990): 815-816.
“Narrative Annexes in Charlotte Bronte's Shirley.” Journal of Narrative Technique 20: 2 (Spring 1990): 107-119.
Poetry
Poems in Agni, An Anniversary Collection of the Pawtucket Arts Council, The Anthology of New England Writers, Ararat, Chelsea, Clerestory, Colloquy, The Graham House Review, New and Selected: The Ohio Review Thirtieth Anniversary 1971-2001, Notus: New Writing, The Ohio Review, Quarterly West, Standing on the Verge: Emerging Poets and Artists (eds. Joseph Lease and Thomas Sayre Ellis), and Six Seasons Review (Bangladesh).
