Washington and Lee University
on ACLS fellowship, 2009-10 sabbatical leavePh.D., English & Women's Studies, University of Michigan, 2002
M.A., English, University of Michigan, 1998
B.A., English, summa cum laude, Kalamazoo College, 1993
Restoration and eighteenth-century British literature and culture; history of sexuality and gender; feminist theory
English 105—Composition and Literature
English 232—The Novel
English 251—British Literature in an Age of Global Expansion
English 261—Reading Gender
English 333—Studies in Restoration and Early 18th-Century Literature
English 334—Studies in Later 18th-Century Literature
English 335—Eighteenth-Century British Novels
English 358—Literature by Women Before 1800
Women's and Gender Studies 120—Introduction to Women's Studies and Feminist Theory
Women's and Gender Studies 396—Capstone in Women's Studies
Seminar and Capstone Topics
Libertine Literature (Fall 2008)
Gothic Literature from Walpole to Brontë (Fall 2008)
Literary Passing (Winter 2008)
Aphra Behn in Context (Fall 2007)
Early Eighteenth-Century Poetry: Pope and Finch (Spring 2005)
Subjects and Objects: Literature and Consumer Culture, 1660 and Beyond (Winter 2005)
Women and Marriage in Feminist Thought (Fall 2004)
Book
Our Coquettes: Capacious Desire in the Eighteenth Century (University of Virginia Press, 2009). Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an outstanding work of eighteenth-century scholarship.
Articles and Reviews
"The People that Things Make: Coquettes and Consumer Culture." In Refiguring the Coquette, eds. Yael Schlick and Shelley King (Bucknell UP, 2008): 39-61.
"The Lady and the Lapdog: Mixed Ethnicity in Constantinople, Fashionable Pets in Britain." In Humans and Other Animals in Eighteenth-Century British Culture: Representation, Hybridity, Ethics, ed. Frank Palmeri (Ashgate Press, 2006): 31-48.
"Acting the Lover: Gender and Desire in Narratives of Passing Women." In The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 45.3 (Fall 2004): 211-29.
Book review of Ellen Pollak, Incest and the English Novel (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2003). Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 23.2 (Fall 2004).
Book review of Joan Douglas Peters, Feminist Metafiction and the Evolution of the British Novel (Gainesville: U of Florida P, 2002). Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 21.2 (Fall 2002): 407-409.
"The Macroclitoride, the Tribade, and the Woman: Configuring Gender and Sexuality in English Anatomical Discourse." Textual Practice 13.3 (1999): 513-536.
Assistant to Valerie Traub, bibliography on "Recent Studies in Homoeroticism." English Literary Renaissance 30.2 (2000): 284-329.
ACLS Fellowship (American Council for Learned Societies) for 2009-2010
Frank Hideo Kono Fellow & Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, Huntington Library (Summer 2006)
Jessie Ball duPont Fellow, National Humanities Center (2005-2006)
