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Research Interests

• Jane Austen
• Monster Theory
• Women writers, c. 1650-1830
• Adaptation of 17th- through 19th-century texts
• Transatlanticism
• Juvenilia
• Literary Tourism
• Restoration and 18th-century drama
• Pedagogy

Education

• PhD, University of Tennessee, ​2010
• MA, Texas A&M University, 2003
• BA (Summa Cum Laude), University of Texas at San Antonio, 2001

Publications

Collection of Essays

• Transatlantic Women Travelers: 1688-1843, editor. Bucknell University Press, 2021.
• “Teaching Jane Austen and Her Contemporaries,” co-edited journal issue with Bridget Draxler and Susan Allen Ford, Persuasions On-Line vol. 34, no. 2 (Spring 2014).

Forthcoming Essays

• “Queering Arthur Parker in Jane Austen’s Sanditon and the Masterpiece Adaptation.” Reading the Queer Eighteenth Century, edited by Declan Kavanagh. De Gruyter Brill. Submitted.
• “Sanditon and Illness Anxiety.” Austen and Disability, edited by Matthew Reznicek, Talia Schaffer, Emily Stanback, and Paul Kelleher. Work-in-progress.
• “Virginia Woolf: Jane Austen Stan.” Celebrating Virginia Woolf’s Eighteenth Century, edited by Laura Engel and Miriam Wallace. Work-in-progress.

Individual Essays

• “The Jane Austen Heritage Industry and Literary Tourism.” A Companion to Jane Austen and the Arts, edited by Joe D. Bray and Hannah Moss. Edinburgh University Press, 2024.
• “Virtual Sociability and the Online Austen Classroom.” Austen after 200: New Reading Spaces, edited by Kerry Sinanan, Annika Bautz, and Daniel Cook, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, pp. 81-103.
• “From Blonde to Blue and Beyond: My Chemo Hair Journey.” Maine Digital Collaborative. June 2022.
• Co-authored paper with Rebecca Anne Barr, J. Ereck Jarvis, Kerry Sinanan, and Mariam Wassif. “A Roundtable on The Woman of Colour (1808): Pedagogic and Critical Approaches: Teaching The Woman of Colour and Transatlantic Women.” Studies in Religion and the Enlightenment vol. 2, no. 2 (Spring 2021): 51-52.
• “Introduction: Tracing the Lives of Transatlantic Women Travelers.” In Transatlantic Women Travelers: 1688-1843, Ed. Misty Krueger. Bucknell University Press, 2021.
• “The Austen Treatment: Turning to Austen in Times of Isolation.” Persuasions On-Line vol. 41, no. 1 (Winter 2020).
• “Teaching the Austen-Monster-Mashup: Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters.” Adapting the Eighteenth Century: A Handbook of Pedagogies and Practices. Eds. Sharon R. Harrow and Kirsten T. Saxton. University of Rochester Press, 2020.
• “Handles, Hashtags, and Austen Social Media.” Texas Studies in Literature and Languages Special Issue: “What’s Next for Jane Austen?” Ed. Janine Barchas and Devoney Looser. Vol. 61, no. 4 (2019): 378-396.
• “Sense, Sensibility, Sea Monsters, and Carnivalesque Caricature.“ Jane Austen and Comedy, Ed. Erin M. Goss. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP, 2019.
• “International Visitor Program.” JASNA News: The Newsletter of the Jane Austen Society of North America vol. 33, no. 3 (2017): 12.
• “The Sitting with Jane Art Trail: Celebrating Jane Austen, Basingstoke, and Literary Tourism.” Persuasions On-Line vol. 38, no. 1 (2017).
• “Sitting with Jane and Her Forgotten Peers.” ABO Public: Interactive Forum for Women in the Arts (Sept. 6 2017).
• “Vengeance, Vows, and “Heroick Vertue”: Reforming the Revenger in Delarivier Manley’s Almyna: or, The Arabian Vow.”  New Perspectives on Delarivier Manley and Eighteenth Century Literature: Power, Sex, and Text. Ed. Aleksondra Hultquist and Elizabeth J. Mathews. New York: Taylor and Francis, 2017.
• “A Digital Pedagogy and Digital Human(itie)s: Shakespeare, Austen, and the UMF Student.” Teaching Matters 2. Ed. Linda Britt. Farmington: University of Maine at Farmington, 2016.
• “The Products of Intertextuality: The Value of Student Adaptations in a Literature Course.” Transformative Works and Cultures vol. 20 (Sept. 2015).
• “Creating Adaptations in a Long Eighteenth-Century Literature Course.” Studies in the Novel. 2015. Web. 27 Aug. 2015.
• “From Marginalia to Juvenilia: Jane Austen’s Vindication of the Stuarts.”  The Eighteenth-Century: Theory and Interpretation vol. 56, no. 2 (Sum. 2015): 243-259.
• “Mansfield Park Comes to Life: Teaching and Staging Elizabeth Inchbald’s Lovers’ Vows in an Austen Course.”  ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830 5.1 (Mar. 2015).
• “Teaching Northanger Abbey as a ‘Crossover’ Text.” Persuasions On-Line 34.2 (Spring 2014).
• “Editor’s Note,” co-written with Bridget Draxler and Susan Allen Ford, Persuasions On-Line vol. 34, no. 2 (Spring 2014).
• “The Rhetoric of Rape: William Blake’s Visions of the Daughters of Albion as Eighteenth-Century Rape Trial.” Interpreting Sexual Violence: 1660-1800. Ed. Anne Greenfield. Pickering & Chatto, 2013, pp. 149-162.
• “From Davenant to Duffett: Staging The Tempest in the English Restoration.” Shakespeare in Performance. Ed. Eric Brown and Estelle Rivier. Cambridge Scholars, 2013, pp. 24-47.
• “Revenge in Early Restoration England and Sir William Davenant’s Hamlet.” New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century vol. 8., no. 1 (Spring 2011): 31-50.
• “‘Rouse up your self, and bear you like a Man’: Masculine Anxiety and the Body in Delariviere Manley’s The Royal Mischief.” Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research vol. 21, no. 2 (Winter 2006): 39-57.

Recent Book Reviews

• Rev. of Revising the Eighteenth-Century Novel for Eighteenth-Century Life, vol. 47, no. 1, 2023, pp. 81-87.
• Rev. of The Daily Austen and Jane Austen’s Transatlantic Sister for Eighteenth-Century Studies, vol. 53, no. 3, 2020, pp. 491-494.
• Rev. of Satire, Celebrity and Politics in Jane Austen for Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 14., no. 2, 2020, pp. 151-154.
• Pre-2020 book reviews may be found here.

Public Writing

• “Why You Should Care about Hallmark’s Jane Austen ‘Loveuary’ Movies.” Medium. March 5, 2024.
• “What Happens to Miss Lambe in Jane Austen’s ‘Sanditon’ Continuations, Completions, and Retellings.” Medium. March 31, 2023.
• “Jane Austen’s ‘Sanditon’ in a Transatlantic Context: 1817 and Earlier.” Medium. March 17, 2023.
• “Why People Really Hate Netflix’s Persuasion and What They Don’t Get about Austen Adaptations.” Medium. July 20, 2022.
• “The Jane Austen-Bernie Sanders Memes: Too Funny or Too Political?” The 18th-Century Common. January 22, 2021.
• Blog.

Teaching Experience

• Associate Professor, University of Maine at Farmington, 2021-present
• Assistant Professor, University of Maine at Farmington, 2016-2021
• Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Maine at Farmington, 2011-2016
• Post-Doctoral Lecturer, University of Tennessee, 2010-2011
• Graduate Teaching Associate, University of Tennessee, 2004-2010
• Assistant Lecturer, Texas A&M University, 2003-2004
• Graduate Teaching Assistant, Texas A&M University, 2001-2003

Courses Taught

University of Maine at Farmington​

• ENG 497, Independent Study (“Proto-Science Fiction” and “Juvenilia”)
• ENG 477, Senior Seminar (“Jane Austen’s Monsters,” “21st-c. Adaptations of Shakespeare,” “Juvenilia,” “Jane Austen and Her Contemporaries,” and “Restoration and Early 18th-Century English Drama”)
• ENG 397, Independent Study (“Satire, Jonathan Swift, and Terry Pratchett” and “Femininity and the Body in Pride and Prejudice and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies“)
• ENG 380, Transatlantic 18th-Century Women
• ENG 377, Special Topics Course (“Animal Studies and Literature,” “Transatlantic 18th-Century Women,” and “Adaptations of 17th- through 19th-century British Literature”)
• ENG 345, Romantic Era Literature
• ENG 344, Eighteenth-Century Literature (General Survey,  Travel Narratives)
• ENG 300: Critical Concepts ​(course for English majors)
• ENG 297, Independent Study (“Shakespeare and Elementary Education” and “Eighteenth-Century Drama”)
• ENG 288: Topics in Literature and Gender
• ENG 277, Special Topics Course (“Jane Austen’s Adolescent Angst” – online course)
• ENG 251H, British Texts and Contexts I
• ENG 250H, Shakespeare
• ENG 202, Editing
• ENG 201, Public Writing
• ENG 200, Professional Writing
• ENG 181, Literary Analysis and Interpretation
• ENG 100, First-Year Writing Seminar (“Constructing Autobiographical Images of The Female Body” and “Art as Social Critique”)
• FYS 100, First-Year Seminar (“Women’s Autobiographical Images”)
• HON 377, Proto-Science Fiction
• HON 377, Animal Studies
• HON 377, Monster Movie Adaptations
• HON 377, Queer Austen
• HON 277, Monsters
• HON 177, Adolescence

University of Tennessee 

• ENG 201, Survey of British Literature: Beowulf through Samuel Johnson
• ENG 102, First-Year Composition II (“Inquiry into Women’s Autobiographies in Multimodal Forms,” “Visual Art and Culture” and “Writing about Literature”)
• ENG 101, First-Year Composition I (“Rhetoric and Argument”)
• WMS 493, Independent Study on Sylvia Plath
• WMS 215, Images of Women in Literature: Fiction, Poetry, and Drama
• WMS 210, Images of Women in Literature: Biography and Autobiography

Texas A&M University 

• ENGL 301, Technical Writing
• ENGL 210, Scientific and Technical Writing
• ENGL 203, Introduction to Literature
• ENGL 203, Introduction to Literature
• ENGL 104, Composition and Rhetoric

Teaching Awards

• Outstanding Teaching in Honors, 2017
• Faculty and Staff Banquet Award, Outstanding Faculty Member 0-5 Years of Service, 2017

Academic Activities

• Director of the UMF Honors Program
• American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Women’s Caucus Co-Chair
• American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Women’s Caucus Webmaster
• Faculty Sponsor to Sigma Tau Delta, The International English Honor Society
• University Culture Committee Chair
• UMF Symposium Organizer
• Wilson Scholars Faculty Sponsor
• Humanities Representative on Self-Designed Major Committee
• English Department Social Media/Blog Aide Supervisor
• English 100 Assessment Work Group
• English Department Hiring Committees
• Grant Writer

Extracurricular Activities

• Metastatic Breast Cancer Advocate
• Social Media Groups Moderator
• Blogger
• Gamer
• Audiobook Listener
• Proud Parent of Two Cats
• Devoted Auntie