Professor

My scholarly research explores the complex connections between literary works produced in Britain during the so-called long eighteenth century, from the Restoration to the Romantics, and their historical contexts, with special focus on women's fiction and its relation to the novels of Samuel Richardson and Henry Fielding.

In recent years, I have become interested in textual scholarship, editing the new Norton Critical Editions of Gulliver's Travels and Moll Flanders as well as Samuel Richardson's Pamela novels for The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Samuel Richardson.

Teaching Fields

Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Literature
Women's Studies

Office Hours

SPRING 2012

On sabbatical.

Teaching Schedule

Spring 2012

0n sabbatical.

Research Interests

Restoration and Eighteenth Century British Literature
Textual Criticism

Selected Publications

Samuel Richardson, Pamela in Her Exalted Condition. Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Samuel Richardson, Pamela: or, Virtue Rewarded. Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders. Norton Critical Edition, 2004.
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels. Norton Critical Edition, 2002.
Critical Essays on Henry Fielding. G. K. Hall, 1998.
Augustan Subjects: Essays in Honor of Martin C. Battestin. University of Delaware Press, 1997.
New Essays on Samuel Richardson. St. Martin's Press/Macmillan, UK, 1996.
The Plays of Henry Fielding: A Critical Study of His Dramatic Career. University Press of Virginia, 1989.