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Associate Professor of English and of Comparative Literature and HumanitiesResearch and teaching interests
French and British Romanticism; feminist and gender studies; comparative and interdisciplinary studies; the historical novel; tourism
Education
Ph.D., University of Colorado, Boulder, 1990
M.A., University of Iowa, 1981
B.A., University of Colorado, Boulder, 1979
Publications
Books
Co-ed. with Charlotte Sussman, Recognizing the Romantic Novel: New Approaches to British Fiction. Liverpool Press, forthcoming 2008
Austen's Unbecoming Conjunctions: Subversive Laughter, Embodied History. Palgrave Macmillan, 2005
Associate ed. (with Jared Curtis, ed.), Last Poems: 1821-1850. Vol. 20, The Cornell Wordsworth. Cornell Univ. Press, 1999
Essays
With Charlotte Sussman, “New Histories of British Fiction.” Recognizing the Romantic Novel: New Approaches to British Fiction. Ed. Jillian Heydt-Stevenson and Charlotte Sussman. Liverpool Press, forthcoming 2008
“‘The Spring fashions are partly down; and the hats the most frightful you can imagine’: The Subjectivity of Things in the World of the Romantic Novel.” Women and Material Culture. Ed. Jennie Batchelor and Cora Kaplan. Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, 52-68
"’Pleasure is, and ought to be your business’: Stealing Sexuality in Jane Austen’s Juvenilia.” Romantic Praxis Jan. 2006
With Jeffrey N. Cox, “Are Those Who Are ‘Strangers Nowhere in the World’ At Home Anywhere: Thinking about Romantic Cosmopolitanism.” Special issue co-ed. by Jeffrey N. Cox and Jillian Heydt-Stevenson, European Romantic Review 16 (April 2005): 129-40
"The Pleasures of Simulacra: Rethinking the Picturesque in Coleridge’s Notebooks and 'The Picture, or the Lover's Resolution.'" Nineteenth Century Prose 29 (Fall, 2002): 23-52
Co-ed. with Gary Harrison, Special Topics Issue on "Variations on the Picturesque: Authority, Play, and Practice." Co-auth. with Gary Harrison, "Introduction." European Romantic Review 13, 1 (Winter 2002): 3-10.
"Slipping into the Ha-Ha: Bawdy Humor and Body Politics in Jane Austen's Novels." Nineteenth-Century Literature 55 (2000): 309-39
"Liberty, Connection, and Tyranny in the Novels of Jane Austen and the Aesthetic Movement of the Picturesque." The Lessons of Romanticism. Ed. Thomas Pfau and Robert Gleckner. Duke University Press, 1998, 261-79
"'Unbecoming Conjunctions': Mourning the Loss of Landscape and Love in Persuasion." Eighteenth-Century Fiction 8 (1995): 51-71
"'First Impressions' and Later Recollections: The 'Place' of the Picturesque in Pride and Prejudice." Studies in the Humanities. 12 (1985): 15-24
Selected honors and awards
Faculty Fellow, CU Boulder Center for Humanities and the Arts, 2006-2007
University Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, The University of Texas at San Antonio, 1997
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar, 1991
Current projects
Incandescent Things: Women and Their Possessions in Romantic Literature (book)
“Liberating Things: Indian Diamonds and Florentine Venuses in Edgeworth’s Belinda” (article)