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Scholarly Activity | Teaching Experience Academic Background 1991
Ph.D. University of Michigan, English Literature Academic
Employment College
of the Holy Cross: Associate Professor of English (2004-); Teaching Expertise: eighteenth-century British literature, history and theory of the novel, satire, women's and gender studies, feminist and critical theory, women writers Areas of Research: eighteenth-century novel, eighteenth-century periodical literature and print culture, feminist and gender theory
SCHOLARLY ACTIVITY Publications: Books: Proposing Men: Dialectics of Gender and Class in the Eighteenth-Century English Periodical (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998). Critical Editions: Elizabeth Inchbald, Nature and Art [1796], includes introduction, annotations, and variants (London: Pickering Women's Classics, 1997). Revised paperback edition of Nature and Art, includes introduction, annotations, and critical appendices (Broadview Literary Texts, in press). Articles: "'I wou'd be a Man-Woman': Roxana's Amazonian Threat to the Ideology of Marriage," Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Vol. 46, No. 3 (Fall 2004). "Fathers, Sons, and Lovers: The Transformation of Masculine Authority in Dryden's Aureng-Zebe," The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, forthcoming. "Designing Women: The Fabric of Gender Politics in the Tatler and Spectator Papers," in The Clothes that Wear Us: Dressing and Transgressing in Eighteenth-Century Culture, edited Jessica Munns and Penny Richards (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1999): 208-29. "Masculinity and Morality in Elizabeth Inchbald's Nature and Art," in Women, Revolution, and the Novels of the 1790s, edited Linda Lang-Peralta (Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1999): 155-76. "'As Sacred as Friendship, As Pleasurable as Love': Father-Son Relations in the Tatler and Spectator" in History, Gender, & Eighteenth-Century Literature, edited Beth Fowkes Tobin (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1994): 14-38. "Reforming Men: Chaste Heterosexuality in the Early English Periodical," Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700, Vol. 16, No. 1 (Spring 1992): 38-55. "The Female [As] Reader: Sex, Sensibility, and the Maternal in Wollstonecraft's Fictions," Essays in Literature, Vol. 19, No. 1 (Spring 1992): 36-54. Reviews: Robert W. Jones, Gender and the Formation of Taste in Eighteenth-Century Britain, in Modern Philology, Vol. 99, No. 1 (February 2002): 434-37. Susan Snively, The Undertow (poems), in Amherst (Amherst College Alumni Magazine), Vol. 51, No. 1 (Fall 1998): 36-38. Kristina Straub, Sexual Suspects: Eighteenth-Century Players and Sexual Ideology, in The South Central Review, Vol. 12, No. 2 (Summer 1995): 71-73. Michael Boardman, Narrative Innovation and Incoherence: Ideology in Defoe, Goldsmith, Austen, Eliot and Hemingway, in Studies in the Novel, Vol. 26, No. 4 (Winter 1994): 431-35. Felicity Nussbaum, The Autobiographical Subject: Gender and Ideology in Eighteenth-Century England, in Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol. 3, No. 3 (April 1991): 273-75. Hilda Smith and Susan Cardinale, Women and Literature of the Seventeenth Century: An Annotated Bibliography Based on Wing's Short-Title Catalogue, in The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography (1990): V:325. Conferences: Roundtable Organizer and Presenter: "The 'Other' Elizabeth Inchbald: Beyond A Simple Story," ASECS, March/April 2005 (Las Vegas) Panel Chair, "'Amazons of the Pen'?: Women and Satire in the Long Eighteenth Century," ASECS, March 2004 (Boston) "Friendship and Love: The Politics of Masculinity in Thomas Holcroft's Hugh Trevor," ASECS/ISECS, August 2003 (Los Angeles) Roundtable Organizer and Presenter: "Eighteenth-Century Gender Studies: Where Are We Going, Where Have We Been?" ASECS, April 2002 (Colorado Springs) "Becoming a Man-Woman: Gender and Economics in Defoe's Roxana," NEASECS, November 2001 (Halifax) "'Tis not with me as with a private Man': Masculine Virtue in Dryden's Aureng-Zebe," ASECS, April 2000 (New Orleans) Panel Chair, "The Shaping of Men: Eighteenth-Century Masculinity and Empire," NEASECS, September 2000 (Portland) Chair and Discussant: "Gender/Sexuality/Literary History: A Roundtable Discussion," NEASECS, September 1998 (Williamstown) Panel Chair: "Family Plots: Familial Relations and Narrative Structure in Eighteenth-Century Prose," NEASECS, December 1997 (Boston) "The Female Spectator and the Male Gaze: Masculine Subjectivity in Eliza Haywood's Periodical," MLA, December 1996 (Washington, D.C.) Panel Chair: "Rethinking Samuel Richardson" and "Novels of the 1790s," NEASECS, September 1996 (Worcester) "Nature and Art: A Re-evaluation," ASECS, March 1996 (Austin) "Designing Women: The Fabric of Gender Politics in the Early Eighteenth-Century Periodical," Invited Paper, ASECS, April 1995 (Tucson) "The Reproduction of Fathering: Masculinity and Morality in Elizabeth Inchbald's Nature and Art," Ninth Annual DeBartolo Conference on Eighteenth-Century Literature, February 1995 (Tampa) Chair and Discussant: "Gender Studies in/and the Eighteenth Century: A Roundtable Discussion," NEASECS, October 1994 (New York City) "An Exemplar to His Sex? The Construction of Masculinity in Sir Charles Grandison," SCSECS, March 1993 (Baton Rouge)
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