McGill University
Department of English
853 Sherbrooke Street West
Arts Building
Montreal, QC H3A 0G5 CANADA
B.A. (Bates College); M.A., Ph.D. (University of Washington), Associate Professor
19th Century Novel; literature and medicine; narrative theory.
University of Washington, Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University.
- Louis Dudek Award for Excellence in Teaching/McGill University, Department of English, 2004-5
- Marion Brittain Postdoctoral Fellowship (Georgia Tech)
- Center for Humanistic Inquiry Postdoctoral Fellowship (Emory), NEH Institute Fellowship
"Realism after Sensation: Hardy, Gissing, Meredith," forthcoming inBlackwell's Companion to Sensation Fiction (2010)
Family Practices: Doctors and Marriage in the Victorian Novel(2009)
The Brontës in Context: Harold Bloom's Classic Authors Series (2008)
"AIDS in Africa, Cultural Studies in Georgia," Cultural Studies vol. 19. No.4 (July 2005).
“Medical Gothic and the Return of the Contagious Diseases Acts in Stoker and Machen,” Nineteenth-Century Feminisms (Fall 2003).
“Narrative Injury and Surgical Cure: Wilkie Collins’s Poor Miss Finch and Heart and Science,” Journal of Narrative Theory (Winter 2002).
“Fiction Becomes Her: Representations of Female Character in Mary Braddon’s The Doctor’s Wife,” Mary Braddon in Context, eds. Marlene Tromp, Aerin Haynie, and Pamela K. Gilbert. State University of New York Press (2000).
"Disable the Heroine, Enable the Plot: Dinah Mulock Craik’s Olive and the Triumph of the Least Fit"
“Yellowbacks and Representational Self-Consciousness: Extending Realist Techniques to the Popular Novel”