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BA, MA, PhD, University of Pennsylvania

19th-century British fiction

• Victorian fiction
• George Gissing 
• John Cowper Powys
• British fiction of the 1890s
• Late-Victorian publishing and reviewing practices

• Interim Dean of the Faculty and Provost, 2015-17 
• Chair of the Department of English, 2014-2015, 2019-
• Director of the Division of University Studies, 2009-2013
• Co-Chair, Middle States Self-Study (2008 reaccreditation)
• University Professor and Chair of Core 152, “Challenges of Modernity,” 1996-1998
• University Professor and Chair of GNED 102, “The Challenge of Modernity,” 1994-1995

• “’For Her Own Satisfaction Alone’? Dress in The Odd Women,” “Gissing in Vogue,” supplement to Gissing Journal 54.4 (2020): 9-10.
• “The London Frame of Mind in Born in Exile,” Victoriographies 10 (2020): 165-76.
• “‘Entirely to My Taste’: Gissing’s Reception of Charlotte Brontë,” A World within the World: George Gissing’s Vision of Art and Literature, ed. Maria Teresa Chialant, Emanuela Ettorre, and Christine Huguet (Rome: Aracne, 2018) 143-58. 
• Gender, Type, and Individual Identity in Isabel Clarendon,” Gissing Journal 52 (2018): 27-37
• “Gissing and Women in the 1890s: The Conditions and Consequences of Narrative Sympathy,” George Gissing and the Woman Question: Convention and Dissent, ed. Christine Huguet and Simon J. James (Farnham: Ashgate, 2013) 29-39.
• “Gissing and Religion: Some Aspects of His Use of Christianity in His Fiction,” Writing Otherness: The Pathways of George Gissing’s Imagination, ed. Christine Huguet ([Haren]: Equilibris, 2010) 217-36.
• “Fantasies of Recuperation in Eve's Ransom,” Eve's Ransom: George Gissing e le sfide del romanzo tardo-vittoriano, ed. Maria Teresa Chialant, Studi di Anglistica 22 (Rome: Aracne, 2010) 67-82. 
• “‘The Foolish Virgin’ and the One Thing Needful,” Spellbound, George Gissing, ed. Christine Huguet ([Haren]: Equilibris, 2008) II: 109-17.
• A Sunless Heart, by Edith Johnstone (Peterborough: Broadview, 2008).
• “The Ambivalently Modern Master: Hedges against the Modern in Meredith’s The Amazing Marriage,” ELT 48 (2005): 436-58. 
• “The Text of Eve’s Ransom: Insights from the Illustrated London News Serialization,” Gissing Journal 41.3 (July 2005): 1-9.
• “Flowers on the Dunghill in The Nether World,” Victorian Newsletter 102 (2002): 9-15.
• “Eliza Lynn Linton as a New Woman Novelist,” The Rebel of the Family, ed. Deborah Meem (Peterborough: Broadview, 2002) 456-74.
• “Putting Idiosyncrasy in Its Place: Michael Armstrong in Light of Trollope's Early Fiction,” Frances Trollope and the Novel of Social Change, ed. Brenda Ayres (Westport: Greenwood, 2002) 119-35.
• "Women with Ideas: Gissing's The Odd Women and the New Woman Novel," A Garland for Gissing, ed. Bouwe Postmus (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2001) 81-89.
• “Wrestling with Nietzsche: John Cowper Powys’s Engagement with Nietzsche in the Early Years  of the First World War,” Powys Journal 11 (2001): 63-81.
• “Reviewing New Woman Fiction in the Daily Press: The Times, the Scotsman, and the Daily Telegraph,” Victorian Periodicals Review 34 (2001): 79-96. 
• Subversive Heroines: Feminist Resolutions of Social Crisis in the Condition-of-England Novel (Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1994) 
• “G���������Բ�’s��In the Year of Jubilee and the Epistemology of Resistance,” SEL 34 (1994): 853-75. 
• “George Gissing’s Thyrza: Romantic Love and Ideological Co-Conspiracy,” Gissing Journal 30 (1994): 1-12. 
• “Effaced by History: Elizabeth Gaskell’s Reformulation of Scott,” Scott in Carnival, ed. J.H. Alexander and David Hewitt (Aberdeen: ASLSs, 1993) 530-42. 
• “G���������Բ�’s��The Unclassed and the Perils of Naturalism,” ELH 59 (1992): 911-38.
• “Christ and Satan: The Measured Power of Christ,” Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 90 (1989): 243-53.