Essays

In Progress / Forthcoming

“Apparitional Objects, Uncanny Capital, and the Afterlives of The Invisible Drummer of Tedfield.” Ghosts and the Gothic, edited by Ruth Heholt and Jo Parsons, Manchester University Press, forthcoming 2024.

“Thirty Years, Thirty Ideas: Women and Crime,” co-authored with Emily Travis. Women Writers in Context, Women Writers Project, Northeastern University, forthcoming 2024.

Published

“Troubling White Femininity in Delarivier Manley’s The Wife’s Resentment (1720).” Eighteenth-Century Fiction, vol. 35 no.4, 2023, p. 485-496.

“Spectacular Materials: Afterlives of the Eighteenth-Century Murderess Mary Blandy.” Making Stars: Biography and Eighteenth-Century Celebrity. Eds. Nora Nachumi and Kristina Straub. University of Delaware Press, Performing Celebrity Series, 2022.

“Glancing Encounters: The Ephemeral City Archive in Eliza Haywood’s Fantomina, or Love in a Maze (1725) and Frances Burney’s Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress (1782).” Tusla Studies in Women’s Literature Special Issue: Women and Archives, vol .40 no.2, 2021.

“Writing With Aphra: Solidarity, Generosity, and Fight Club Rules Beyond Summer 2020.” Co-authored with Bethany Qualls. ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830, vol. 11 no.1, 2021, article 17.

“‘[T]Hat Where One Was, There Was The Other’: Dreams of Queer Stories in Aphra Behn’s The History of the Nun, or, the Fair Vow-Breaker (1689).” Women’s Writing Special Issue: Women Writing Men, edited by Ruth Heholt and Joanna Parsons, vol. 28 no. 2, 2021, p. 160-176.

“Eliza Haywood’s The Female Spectator and Social Reading Practices: Teaching with Feminocentric Digital Periodicals.” Co-authored with Cassie Childs. Approaches to Teaching the Works of Eliza Haywood. Ed. Tiffany Potter. Modern Language Association, 2020.

“Vera Caspary’s Bedelia: Murder as a Domestic Art, or Lethal Home Economics.”Bad Girls and Transgressive Women in Popular Television, Fiction, and Film. Eds. Julie Chappel and Mallory Young. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

Introduction, The Incredible Crime by Lois Austen Leigh. British Library, 2017.

Foreword, New Perspectives on Delarivier Manley and Eighteenth Century Literature: Power, Sex and Text. Eds. Aleksondra Hutlquist and Elizabeth Mathews. Ashgate Press, 2016.

Afterword, Public and Private Spaces: Spectacle, Sex and Property in Eighteenth Century Literature. Ed. Julie Chappel and Kamille Stone, AMS Press, Inc., 2014.

“‘But Among Our Own Selves We’ll be Free’ (1728): Teaching 18th-century Literature in a Transgendered Classroom.” Co-authored with Rebekah Edwards and Ajuan Mance. Heteronormativity and the Eighteenth Century. Eds. Abby Coykendall and Ana de Freitas Boe. Ashgate Press, 2013.

“From Skepticism to Measured Enthusiasm: The Story of Two Literary Scholars’ Introduction to Assessment in the Major.” Co-authored with Ajuan Mance. Literary Study, Measurement, and the Sublime: Disciplinary Assessment. Eds. Donna Heiland and Laura Rosenthal, Teagle Foundation Press, 2011.

Introduction, Fifteen Ways to Stay Alive. Daphne Gottlieb, Manic D Press, 2011.

“Risking Fanny: Teaching Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure.”Launching Fanny Hill: Essays on the Novel and Its Influences. Eds. Patsy Fowler and Alan Jackson, AMS Press, Inc., 2003.

Bibliographical Entries on Margaret Oliphant, Mary Ann Sadlier, Helen Serena Sheridan, Lily Tinsley, and Lucy Walford in The Encyclopedia of British Women Writers. Eds. Paul and June Schleuter, Rutgers University Press, 1999.

“Eliza Haywood.”The Female Spectator. Chawton House Library, Vol. 3, Iss. 1, Spring 1998.