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Curriculum Vita: Vita (pdf 19k)
Ph.D., Rutgers University, 2004
B.A., Hampshire College, 1996
Theories of Objects, especially Artifacts and Furnishings
Historiography and Historical Consciousness
The Social Dimension of Authorship, Reading, Literary Value
My book-in-progress, Modern Antiques: Imagination, Scholarship, and the Material Past, explores the influence of consumer culture and antiquarian research on literary representations of historical time in eighteenth-century England.
Eighteenth-century British Literature
Gothic mode from its Eighteenth-century Inception to the Present
Poetic Form and Versification
At some point, I hope to offer a course that will relate significant moments in the history of food to descriptions of hunger, taste, cooking, and eating in works of fiction and poetry.
DIY Gothic: Thomas Gray and the Medieval Revival, ELH 70 [2003]: 989-1019.
