Professor
The study of late eighteenth and early nineteenth century British literature has been the focus of my scholarship for the past 30 years. The first focus of my research--canonical British romantic poetry--resulted in my book Romantic Androgyny: The Women Within (1990). My second book, Gothic Feminism: The Professionalization of Gender from Charlotte Smith to the Brontës (1998), looks at the gothic novels of a variety of women writers. My third book, Gothic Riffs: Secularizing the Uncanny in the European Imaginary, 1780-1820 (2010), won the Allan Lloyd Smith award from the International Gothic Association. It examines gothic chapbooks, ballads, operas, and melodramas as a means by which the European imaginary negotiated with the anxieties implicit in what Charles Taylor has called “ambivalent secularization.” The other area of my research focuses on women writers, and includes publications on Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Mary Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, feminism, women of color, and women and creativity. Writing and research are, luckily for me, both my vocation and my avocation. In addition to the three books listed above, I’ve also published a dozen coauthored or coedited books, about 60 articles, 30 reviews, and presented 30 conference papers.
In 2009 I was awarded the Way Klingler Senior Humanities Fellowship, for which I am deeply grateful and honored. I will spend the three years of support I have received traveling to a number of research collections in order to write my next book, “The Gothic Ideology: Religious Hysteria in an Age of Enlightenment.”
My involvement in the field internationally includes my stint as President of the International Conference on Romanticism (2000-2003), and my work with the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism. In addition, I am the Co-editor of the European Romantic Review, and a board member of Romanticism and Victorianism on the Netand Studies in the Novel.
I teach a wide variety of courses, but my specialties are "The Female Gothic," "Literature and Psychology," "Romanticism: Gender, Class, Race," "Gothic Fiction and Drama," and “Catholic/Anti-Catholic Literature and Culture.”
When I am not teaching, reading, or writing about literature, I am traveling, mostly in Europe. True to my gothic interests, I love to explore ruins, old cathedrals, museums, and art galleries.
Link to Curriculum Vitae
Teaching Fields
- English Literature of the Romantic Period
- The Gothic Novel
- Women's Literature
Office Hours
FALL 2011
SPRING 2012
- by appointment
Teaching Schedule
FALL 2011
SPRING 2012
- on Way Klingler Fellowship
Research Interests
- British Romanticism
- Gothic fiction and drama
- Women’s literature
Selected Publications
- Gothic Riffs: Secularizing the Uncanny in the Eurpoean Iimaginary, 1780-1820. Columbus: The Ohio State UP, 2010
- The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, Edgar Allan Poe. Ed by Frederick S. Frank and Diane L. Hoeveler. Broadview P, 2010.
- Gothic Feminism: The Professionalization of Gender from Charlotte Smith to the Brontës. University Park: Penn State Press, 1998. Republished in a Japanese translation by Kyoto: Apollon-sha, 2007.
- Romantic Androgyny: The Women Within. University Park: Penn State Press, 1990.
- Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature, 3 vols.
- http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1405188103.html
- (Contributing Coeditor with Fred Burwick and Nancy Goslee)
- Charlotte Brontë. New York: Macmillan/Twayne Publications, 1997. (Coauthor with Lisa Jadwin).
- Women’s Literary Creativity and the Female Body. New York: Palgrave/ Macmillan Press, 2007. (Contributing Coeditor with Donna Schuster).
- Interrogating Orientalism: Contextual Approaches and Pedagogic Practices. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2006. (Contributing Coeditor with Jeffrey Cass).
- Romanticism: Comparative Discourses. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Press, 2006. (Contributing Coeditor with Larry Peer).
- Approaches to Teaching Gothic Fiction. New York: Modern Language Association, 2003. (Contributing Coeditor with Tamar Heller).
- Women of Color: Defining the Issues/Hearing the Voices. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001. (Contributing Coeditor with Janet K. Boles).
- Comparative Romanticisms: Power, Gender, and Subjectivity. Columbia, SC: Camden Press, 1998. (Contributing Coeditor with Larry H. Peer).
- Approaches to Teaching Brontë’s ‘Jane Eyre.’ New York: Modern Language Association, 1993. (Contributing Coeditor with Beth Lau).
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Honors/Awards
- Allan Lloyd Smith Memorial Prize, 2009-11. International prize for gothic criticism.
- Way Klingler Faculty Fellowship Award, 2009-12
- Way Klingler Sabbatical Fellowship, 2007-08
- Jean-Pierre Barricelli Book Award, International Conference on Romanticism, 2006
- Nora Finnegan Werra Faculty Achievement Award given by the Association of Marquette University Women, 2007
- Brico Awards for Women’s Studies, 2001-03
- Five Summer Faculty Fellowships, Marquette University, 1990; 1992; 1995; 1997; 2000
- National Endowment for the Humanities, 1987
- Council for Basic Education, 1986
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