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Assistant Professor of EnglishResearch and teaching interests
Early American and 19th-century American literature (including African American literature); religion; gender and sexuality studies; print culture; aesthetics; methodology
Education
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 2006
M.A., Johns Hopkins University, 2004
B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz, 2000
Publications
Journal issue edited
Co-ed. with Justine S. Murison, “Methods for the Study of Religion,” a special issue of Early American Literature 45.1(Spring 2010), forthcoming
Essays
“Religion and Method,” co-authored with Justine S. Murison, Early American Literature 45.1 (Spring 2010), forthcoming
“The Blithedale Romance’s Queer Style.” ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, 55.4 (2009), forthcoming
“‘Mary Rowlandson’s Hunger and the Historiography of Sexuality”
American Literature 81.3 (September 2009): 469−95.
“‘A Christian nation calls for its wandering children’: Life, Liberty, Liberia”
American Literary History, 19.4 (November 2007): 849-73
Selected honors and awards
NEH Post-doctoral Fellowship, Library Company of Philadelphia, 2009-2010
Junior Faculty Development Award, CU Boulder, 2009
Dean’s Fund for Excellence/ASSETT Grant, CU Boulder, 2008–2009
Current projects
The Secularization of American Culture (book)
The Historiography of Sexuality: Puritanism, Personhood, and the Rise of the Novel (book)
Co-ed. with Lara Langer Cohen, Early African American Print Culture in Theory and Practice (essay collection)
"Slavery and Secular Reading" (article)