Professor

My scholarly research explores the complex connections between literary works produced in Britain during the so-called long eighteenth century, from the Restoration to the Romantics, and their historical contexts.

In recent years, I have become interested in textual scholarship, editing the new Norton Critical Editions of Gulliver's Travels and Moll Flanders as well as Samuel Richardson's Pamela novels for The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Samuel Richardson.

Teaching Fields

Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Literature
Women's Studies

Office Hours

Fall 2013

TUTH 11:00-12:30

Teaching Schedule

Fall 2013

4530/102 TuTh 9:30-10:45 Cudahy 120
HOPR 3953/903 TuTh 12:30-1:45 Cudahy 120
- Honors Undergraduate Research Seminar

Research Interests

Restoration and Eighteenth Century British Literature
Textual Criticism

Selected Publications

Samuel Richardson, Pamela in Her Exalted Condition. Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Samuel Richardson, Pamela: or, Virtue Rewarded. Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders. Norton Critical Edition, 2004.
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels. Norton Critical Edition, 2002.
Critical Essays on Henry Fielding. G. K. Hall, 1998.
Augustan Subjects: Essays in Honor of Martin C. Battestin. University of Delaware Press, 1997.
New Essays on Samuel Richardson. St. Martin's Press/Macmillan, UK, 1996.
The Plays of Henry Fielding: A Critical Study of His Dramatic Career. University Press of Virginia, 1989.