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Assistant Professor of EnglishResearch and teaching interests
Early American and 19th-century American literature; American political culture; critical theory; gender and sexuality studies
Education
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 2006
M.A., Johns Hopkins University, 2004
B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz, 2000
Publications
Essays
"Mary Rowlandson's Hunger and the Historiography of Sexuality"
American Literature, 81, no. 3 (forthcoming September 2009).
“‘A Christian nation calls for its wandering children’: Life, Liberty, Liberia”
American Literary History, 19 no. 4 (November 2007): 849-73.
Current projects
The Secularization of American Culture (monograph)
New World Puritanism and the Historiography of Sexuality (monograph)