Here is an up-to-date list of my publications, including forthcoming publications. For more information about my research, or to request copies of published articles or book chapters, please email me or visit my page on academia.edu.
Books
Katharine O’Shea: Reputation, Representation, and Victorian Hypocrisy. Vernon Press. Under contract.
The Voyage Out: Annotated Edition. Clemson University Press. Forthcoming 2027.
McFarland’s Companion to George Eliot. With Beverley Park Rilett. McFarland. Forthcoming, 2026/27.
George Eliot and Her Women. Lexington Books, Rowman, and Littlefield. 2024.
Peer-Reviewed Articles
“Washington Irving’s Medieval Renaissance: Chaucer’s Influence on Irving’s Foundational Project.” English Studies. 2022.
‘“[A]s plain as water’s water”: the Symbolic Function of Water in George Eliot’s Romola’. The George Eliot Review, 2019, pp. 26-33.
‘“[P]assionate, magnificent prose’: Tracing the Brontës in the Friendship and Writings of Elizabeth von Arnim and Katherine Mansfield’. Katherine Mansfield Studies, 2019, pp. 132-144.
“‘[O]nly a psychological phenomenon’: Situating Tess of the D’Urbervilles in and out of Hardy’s Wessex’. The Thomas Hardy Journal, 15, 1, 2019, pp. 39-52.
“Two Janes: Jane Eyre and the Narrative Problem of Chapter 23.” The Bronte Studies Journal, 41:4, 2016, pp. 312-321
“Perception, Performance, and Community Spirit in George Eliot’s “Amos Barton”.” Global Journal of English Language and Literature. 2015.
“The Ordinary and the Common in the Writings of Virginia Woolf.” The Atlantic Review of Feminist Studies, 2.2. Nov. 2015.
“The Dichotomy of Cultural Perspective in George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda.” East-West Cultural Passage, Journal of the “C. Peter Magrath” Research Center for Cross-Cultural Studies. Nov. 2015.
“Sure I shall never marry like my sisters”: The Measure of Marriage in Shakespeare’s King Lear.” Gender Forum, 49, Sept. 2014.
Book Chapters
“Using Definition to Explore Literature and Culture in the College Classroom.” Teaching the American Essay. Forthcoming, 2026.
“Misogyny, Objectification, and The Suppression of Female Identity in An Introduction to Sally.” Elizabeth von Arnim and Identities. 2025.
“George Eliot: Behind the Mask.” Still Crazy About George Eliot After 200 Years. Bite-sized Books. 2019.
“Social Exile in Nineteenth-Century England.” European Writers in Exile. Lexington Books, Rowman, and Littlefield, 2018, pp. 1-15.
“Heart of Darkness and the Problem of Faith.” Critical Insights: Joseph Conrad. Salem Press/Greyhouse Publishing Inc. 2016, pp. 206-222.
“The battle of the sexes: D.H. Lawrence and the struggle for modern sexuality in Lady Chatterley’s Lover.” Critical Essays on D.H. Lawrence. Atlantic Publishers and Distributors. 2016.
“Henry James and the Dilemma of Young Americans.” American Writers in Exile. Salem Press/Greyhouse Publishing Inc. 2015, pp. 88-103.
“The Heart of a King.” Global Women Leaders: Studies in Feminist Political Rhetoric. Lexington Books, Rowman and Littlefield. 2014, pp. 3-18.
Reviews
Suzanne Bailey, Cognitive Style, and Perceptual Difference in Browning’s Poetry (London: Routledge 2010). British Society of Literature and Science.
Wyatt Bonikowski, Shell Shock and the Modernist Imagination: The Death Drive in Post-World War I British Fiction (Oxford: Routledge 2013). British Society of Literature and Science.
Will Abberley, English Fiction and the Evolution of Language, 1850-1914 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2015). British Society of Literature and Science.
Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet, The Poetics and Politics of the American Gothic (Farnham: Ashgate 2010). British Society of Literature and Science.
Conference Presentations
“Psychogeography and Empire in The Voyage Out,” 32nd Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, Virginia Woolf & Ecologies. June 2023.
“‘She came and departed as a shadow’—Ethereal Women in ‘The Birthmark’ and ‘Ligeia,’” American Literature Association. May 2023.
“Promoting Equity in Composition Classrooms: Conceptualizing the Future of Composition and Literary Studies.” NISOD: International Conference on Teaching and Leadership Excellence. May 2022.
“Intersectionality and the Breaking of Formal Boundaries in the Writings of George Eliot.” British Women Writers Conference. April, 2022.
“George Eliot’s Unsettling Personae.” North American Victorian Studies Conference. March, 2022. [Panel Organizer].
“’A Rose By Any Other Name’: The Case for English Composition and Literature Classes.” The End of English Conference. Rice University, February 2022.
“Teaching Composition Equitably and Inclusively to Promote Social Justice.” NISOD. October, 2021. [Online].
“‘A Peculiar Thermometric Adjustment’: Gender Bias and the Formation of George Eliot’s Authorial Identity.” Victorian Women Novelists: Navigating Place in British Society. SAMLA 92. November 2020. [Online].
“’I am a woman’s life’: Women and Gender in George Eliot’s Fiction.” Graduate Student Conference at the Center for Women and Gender Studies. University of Texas, Austin. April 2020.
“Visions of Realism: Eliot and Modes of Realistic Fiction.” British Women’s Writer’s Conference. Fort Worth, March 2020. [Panel Organizer].
“’I am a woman’s life’: Women, Gender, and Exile in George Eliot’s Fiction.” Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association Conference. San Diego, November, 2019.
‘“[A] Clever Novelist” and her “Fair Critic[s]”: George Eliot, Gender, and Constructed Identities.’ George Eliot 2019: An International Bicentenary Conference. Leicester, UK. July, 2019.
“‘[A] gulf so deeply cut between us’: Woolf, War, and Social Justice.” The 29th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf: Virginia Woolf and Social Justice. June, 2019.
‘“[T]he mighty tide’: Water, Movement, and Metaphor in George Eliot’s Fiction.’ British Women’s Writers Conference. Alburn, AL. April, 2019.
‘Monuments, Memories, and Reminders in George Eliot’s Romola’. Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies, Dallas, TX. March, 2019.
“‘The novel can’t leave out the war’: Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day (1919) As An Expression of Post-War Anxieties and A Study of Modernity.” The 28th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf: Virginia Woolf, Europe and Peace. University of Kent, UK. June, 2018.
“‘The Perception of Separateness’: The Problem of Categorizing Forms in the Writing of George Eliot and Virginia Woolf.” Transitions: Bridging the Victorian-Modernist Divide. University of Birmingham, UK. April, 2018.
“‘With her telephone ring-ringing’: Katherine Mansfield and the Telephone.” Katherine Mansfield & Writing New Worlds. Queens’ College, University of Cambridge. March, 2018.
“‘[P]assionate, magnificent prose’: Tracing the Brontës in the Friendship and Writings of Elizabeth Von Arnim and Katherine Mansfield.” Elizabeth von Arnim and Katherine Mansfield – Literary Connections, Friendships and Influence. Huntington Library, San Marino, California. July, 2017.
“‘[H]alf in love with easeful death’: Literary Collaborations of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald.” Beyond Genius and Muse: Collaborating Couples: University of Bristol. April, 2017.
“George Eliot and the Perils of Impulsive Consumption.” BAVS 2016: ‘Consuming (the) Victorians.’ British Association for Victorian Studies. University of Cardiff, Cardiff, UK. August, 2016.
““[H]oly once more, holy and happy”: James Joyce and Modernist Spirituality.” Centenary Readings of James Joyce’s ‘A Portrait’ Conference. Dublin, N. Ireland. May, 2016.
“George Eliot and the Powers of Sensory Perception and Realms of Mental Space.” Senses and Spaces: II International Conference in Transatlantic Studies. Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard, Cambridge, MA. May, 2015.
“George Eliot and Her Women: The Representation of Women and Gender in George Eliot’s Fiction.” Gender Matters Conference 2015. Governors State University, IL. April. 2015.
“‘[A]mong the ruins’: Milton, Lawrence, and the Environment of Post-War Culture.” SAGES Third Annual Interdisciplinary Conference on Culture and Environment. University of Akron, OH. March, 2015.
“D.H. Lawrence and the Disconnections of the Modern Man.” D.H. Lawrence and the Natural World. SAMLA 86. Atlanta, GA., November, 2014.
“The Potency of Power and Deceit: Words and Lies in Much Ado About Nothing and Othello.” Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference, Akron, OH., October, 2014.
“Belief…in a special sense”: Spenser’s Poetical Mind and Perspective in The Faerie Queene.” Medieval Renaissance Conference XXVIII. Wise, VA. September, 2014.