Ph.D, Harvard University (1996)

Scholarly Interests:
Broadly, I'm interested in American literature and culture, both mainstream and multicultural.  I also enjoy teaching works outside of my field, especially European novels of the 19th and 20th centuries.  For my research, I continue to be interested in 19th century American historical fiction, popular legends, and folktales, and I am beginning a project on immigration as the subject and context of American fiction, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Recent Courses:
English 355: American Literature to 1865
English 356: American Literature, 1865-1917
English 364: Modern American Fiction
Development of Western Civilization 201 and 202

Selected Publications:
Cultural Secrets as Narrative Form:  Storytelling in Nineteenth-Century America (Columbus OH:  Ohio State UP, 2004).

“From Revolutionary Legends to The Scarlet Letter:  Casting Characters
for  Early American Romanticism,” in Comparative Romanticisms: Power,
Gender, Subjectivity, ed. D. L. Hoeveler and L. H. Peer (Camden House,  1998).

“Narrative Silence in America’s Stories,” The Journal of Narrative and
Life History, III, 1993:  269-81.

American Literature, Microsoft Encarta, 1999.

Co-author, with Sacvan Bercovitch:  “Introduction” to Volume 7 of The  
Cambridge History of American Literature, ed. Bercovitch.  (Cambridge UP, 1999).