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.

department of english, 3rd floor, coleman hall, eastern illinois university