The study of late eighteenth and early nineteenth century British literature has been the focus of my scholarship for the past 30 years. The first focus of my research--canonical British romantic poetry--resulted in my book Romantic Androgyny: The Women Within (1990). My second book, Gothic Feminism: The Professionalization of Gender from Charlotte Smith to the Brontës (1998), looks at the gothic novels of a variety of women writers. The third area of my research focuses on women writers, and includes publications on Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Mary Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, feminism, women of color, and women and creativity. Writing and research are, luckily for me, both my vocation and my avocation. In addition to the two books listed above, I’ve also published a dozen coauthored or co edited books, about 60 articles, 30 reviews, and presented 30 conference papers. My latest book, Gothic Riffs: Secularizing the Uncanny in the European Imaginary, 1780-1850, will be published by Ohio State University in 2010.
In 2009 I was awarded the Way Klingler Senior Humanities Fellowship, for which I am deeply grateful and honored. I will spend the three years of support I have received traveling to a number of research collections in order to write my next book, “The British Gothic Chapbook and the Anti-Catholic Campaign, 1780-1830.”
My involvement in the field internationally includes my stint as President of the International Conference on Romanticism (2000-2003), and my work with the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism. In addition, I am the Co-editor of the European Romantic Review, and a board member of Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net and Studies in the Novel.
I teach a wide variety of courses, but my specialties are "The Female Gothic," "Literature and Psychology," "Romanticism: Gender, Class, Race," "Gothic Fiction and Drama," and “Catholic/Anti-Catholic Literature and Culture.”
When I am not teaching, reading, or writing about literature, I am traveling, mostly in Europe. True to my gothic interests, I love to explore ruins, old cathedrals, museums, and art galleries.
Link to Curriculum Vitae
Teaching Fields
- English Literature of the Romantic Period
- The Gothic Novel
- Women's Literature
Office Hours
FALL 2009
- 12:30-2:00 T TH
Teaching Schedule
FALL 2009
- 4460 - TUTH - 2:00
- 6931 - TUTH - 3:30
Research Interests
- British Romanticism
- Gothic fiction and drama
- Women’s literature
Selected Publications
- Gothic Feminism: The Professionalization of Gender from Charlotte Smith to the Brontës. University Park: Penn State Press, 1998. Republished in a Japanese translation by Kyoto: Apollon-sha, 2007.
- Romantic Androgyny: The Women Within. University Park: Penn State Press, 1990.
- Charlotte Brontë. New York: Macmillan/Twayne Publications, 1997. (Coauthor with Lisa Jadwin).
- Women’s Literary Creativity and the Female Body. New York: Palgrave/ Macmillan Press, 2007. (Contributing Coeditor with Donna Schuster).
- Interrogating Orientalism: Contextual Approaches and Pedagogic Practices. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2006. (Contributing Coeditor with Jeffrey Cass).
- Romanticism: Comparative Discourses. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Press, 2006. (Contributing Coeditor with Larry Peer).
- Approaches to Teaching Gothic Fiction. New York: Modern Language Association, 2003. (Contributing Coeditor with Tamar Heller).
- Women of Color: Defining the Issues/Hearing the Voices. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001. (Contributing Coeditor with Janet K. Boles).
- Comparative Romanticisms: Power, Gender, and Subjectivity. Columbia, SC: Camden Press, 1998. (Contributing Coeditor with Larry H. Peer).
- Approaches to Teaching Brontë’s ‘Jane Eyre.’ New York: Modern Language Association, 1993. (Contributing Coeditor with Beth Lau).
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Honors/Awards
- Way Klingler Faculty Fellowship Award
- Way Klingler Sabbatical Fellowship, 2007-08
- Jean-Pierre Barricelli Book Award, International Conference on Romanticism, 2006
- Nora Finnegan Werra Faculty Achievement Award given by the Association of Marquette University Women, 2007
- Brico Awards for Women’s Studies, 2001-03
- Five Summer Faculty Fellowships, Marquette University, 1990; 1992; 1995; 1997; 2000
- National Endowment for the Humanities, 1987
- Council for Basic Education, 1986
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