Expertise

Fields of interest:

  • Early American Literature; 19th Century American Literature; Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Fiction; Literature and the Environment; Women's Studies.

His areas of specialization are nineteenth-century and colonial American literature and culture, fiction, and critical theory, with particular emphasis on reception studies and audience-oriented criticism and on narratology.

Subject Areas:

  • 20th and 21st Century British Literature and/or Culture
  • 19th Century British Literature and/or Culture
  • 20th and 21st Century American Literature and/or Culture
  • Digital Humanities, Technology, and Media
  • Women's Studies/Feminism/Gender/Sexuality.
Communities
English
Degrees
PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1980