Associate Professor
Publications
Books
| Victorian Literature and the Physics of the Imponderable, University of Pittsburgh Press, December 2016. |
Articles
| “Saving Time: Nineteenth-Century Time Travel and the Temporal Logic of Late Capitalism” | Victorian Studies, 60.2. 2018 |
| “The Residuum, Victorian Naturalism, and the Entropic Narrative” | Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 35:2 (2013): 99-120. |
| “Arthur Morrison” | The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature, Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, July 2015. |
| “A Tale of Two Dandies: Gore, Dickens, and the ‘Social-Fork’ Novel.” | Women’s Writing. 16.2 (2009): 283-300. |
Awards and Recognition
Summer Research Award, Humanities Center, The University of Vermont
Nominated for the Kroepsch-Maurice Excellence in Teaching Award, 2011
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, ACLS Doctoral Completion Dissertation Fellowship, 2008-
2009
Graduate School-New Brunswick Dissertation Teaching Award, 2008-2009, declined in
order to accept ACLS
Mellon Dissertation Grant, Summer 2008
Associate Fellow, Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning, 2006-
2008
Rutgers University Dissertation Fellowship, 2005-2006
Mellon Dissertation Workshop & Fellowship, “Problems in Historical Interpretation,” 2006
Blum Teaching Fellowship, Rutgers University, 2005
Mellon Summer Research Grant, Rutgers University, 2005
Associations and Affiliations
British Association for Victorian Studies
Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Association
Modern Language Association
North American Victorian Studies Association
Phi Beta Kappa
Areas of Expertise and/or Research
Victorian literature and culture, the novel, Victorian poetry, 19th-century science, Dickens, Victorian London, 19th-century political economy. Science fiction, post-apocalyptic fiction and horror.
Education
- Rutgers University, Ph.D. 2009
Contact
Email:
Office Location:
415 Old Mill
Office Hours:
By appointment
Courses Taught
- 19th Century British Novel
- Victorian Monsters
- 19th Century Monsters
- Victorian Poetry
- The Victorian Novel
- Charles Dickens