Interests
I teach American literature from the colonial era through the early Republican period. My research focuses on U.S. writing between 1760 and 1820. Current projects include a study that examines the stylistics and politics of writing as the other sex in eighteenth-century U.S. literary texts and an edition of two eighteenth-century novels by Hannah Webster Foster, co-edited with Jennifer Desiderio.
I am on research leave during spring semester 2009.
Advising
English majors who were formerly my advisees are now advised by Prof. Richard Sylvia.