McGill University Department of English
853 Sherbrooke Street West
Arts Building
Montreal, QC H3A 0G5 CANADA
B.A. (Harvard), Ph.D. (Stanford), Associate Professor
Romantic and Victorian literature, including poetry and the novel; narrative theory; poetics; nineteenth-century science fiction; science and literature.
Stanford University.
Narrative Means, Lyric Ends: Temporality in the Nineteenth-Century British Long Poem. Theory and Interpretation of Narrative. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2009. 238 pp.
“Madness, Unreliable Narration, and Genre in The Purple Cloud.”Science Fiction Studies 36.2 (July 2009): 266-83.
“Narrative Means to Lyric Ends in Wordsworth’s Prelude.” Narrative16.3 (October 2008): 298-330.
“Lyric Narrative Hybrids in Victorian Poetry.” Literature Compass 4.3 (May 2007): 917-34.
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1741-4113.2007.00457.x
“Frankenstein’s Singular Events: Inductive Reasoning, Narrative Technique, and Generic Classification.” The Gothic: from Ann Radcliffe to Anne Rice. Ed. Michael Eberle-Sinatra. Spec. issue of Romanticism on the Net 44 (December 2006).
http://www.erudit.org/revue/ron/2006/v/n44/013998ar.html
“Conviction in Writing: Crime, Confession, and the Written Word inGreat Expectations.” Dickens Studies Annual 33 (2003): 87-108.
“Productive Convergences, Producing Converts.” Whither Victorian Poetry? Ed. Linda K. Hughes. Spec. issue of Victorian Poetry 41.4 (Winter 2003): 500-04.
Estranged Cognition: Narrative, Rhetoric, and Epistemology in Nineteenth-Century British Science Fiction (book project)