My academic research focuses on women’s writing of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, in Britain and North America. Central to my interests are questions about circulation, property ownership, women’s rights, mobility, courtship narratives, political economy, and the novel genre. At Douglas College, University of British Columbia, UC Berkeley, and Concordia, I have taught classes on Nineteenth-Century Mobilities, Adapting Austen and Shelley, Women and Revolution in the Nineteenth Century, and on the Victorian Sensation Novel, as well as Rhetoric & Composition, Principles of Literary Studies, historical surveys, pedagogy, and Creative Writing.
Peer-Reviewed Publications
“Inviting Conflict: The Role of the Slave in Charlotte Smith’s Biographical Aesthetic.” Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture vol. 52, 2023, pp. 305-10.
“Thinking in Time: Jane Austen’s Last Work and Family Legacy.” Nineteenth Century Studies vol. 31, 2019, pp. 1-14.
“Gossip Economies: Jane Austen, Lady Susan, and the Right to Self-Fashion.” European Romantic Review, vol. 26, no. 3, June 2016, pp. 405-12.
“Natural Law and Unnatural Families in Martineau’s Illustrations of Political Economy.” Nineteenth-Century Contexts, vol. 38, no.3, 2016, pp. 195-207.
Other Essays and Reviews
Three Entries. The Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel, 1660-1820, edited by April London. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Forthcoming.
“Creative Writing & Creative Response: Helping Students Cultivate a Critical Voice.” GSI Teaching and Resource Center, UC Berkeley, 2019. Read here.
Review: Liberty in Jane Austen’s Persuasion, by Kathryn E. Davis. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, vol. 32, no. 1, Fall 2019, pp. 226-28.
Selected Talks and Presentations
“Too Early and too Late: Marriage as Event in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Fiction.” North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA), Seattle hub, Sept. 2024. Forthcoming.
“Insurrectional Failure in Charlotte Smith’s Desmond.” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR), Washington, D.C., Aug. 2024. Forthcoming.
“Affect, the Archive, and the Minerva Press.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Toronto, ON, April 2024.
“St. Ursula’s Convent and New Canadian Romanticism.” Joint Conference: British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS)/NASSR, Liverpool/online, August 2022.
“The Minerva Press and the Borders of National Literature.” British Women Writers Conference, Waco, TX, May 2022.
“A Plea for Emigration, Settler Guides, and the Construction of Victorian Canada.” North American Victorian Studies Association, online, March 2022.
“Bound Bodies in Charlotte Smith’s Fiction.” International Conference on Romanticism, Charleston/online, October 2021.
“Connecting Coasts: The Transatlantic Minerva Press.” British Association for Romantic Studies, online, August 2021.
“Jane Austen’s Bodies: Late Works and Family Legacy.” Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA), Vancouver Region, 10 April 2021.
“Inviting Conflict: Charlotte Smith’s Biographical Aesthetic.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, online, April 2021.
“Improving Mansfield: Fanny Price’s Moral Work.” University of British Columbia Opera, Jan. 2021.
“Unsteady Time: Jane Austen’s Last Work and Family Legacy.” UBC Visiting Speaker Series, 20 Nov. 2019.
“Radcliffe’s Gothic Transports: Exchange Value and the Marriage Plot.” Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE), Vancouver, June 2019.
“‘Thinking in Time’: Austen’s Historical Speculations.” Modern Language Association (MLA), Chicago, Jan. 2019.
“Contracted Families and Legal Courtship in Charlotte Smith’s Fiction.” ASECS, Orlando, March 2018.
“Property and Gendered Movement in Evelina.” Roundtable. ASECS, Orlando, March 2018.
“Against Continuity: Jane Austen’s Victorian Biographers.” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies, San Francisco, March 2018.
“Time of her Life: Jane Austen and Biography.” The North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR), Ottawa, 12 Aug. 2017.
“Miscarriage and Motherhood in Cecilia.” ACCUTE, Toronto, May 2017.
“‘There Was Unrest’: Reading History in Barnes’s The Sense of an Ending.” MLA, Philadelphia, 6 Jan. 2017.
“‘Most unhappily in the power of men’: Novels, Contracts, and Charlotte Smith's Discontent.” NASSR, Berkeley, Aug. 2016.
Roundtable on New Works: Timothy Campbell’s Historical Style: Fashion and the New Mode of History. NASSR, Berkeley, Aug. 2016.
“Mobile Property: The Carriage in Fact and Fiction.” ACCUTE, Calgary, May 2016.
“Gossip Economies: Jane Austen, Lady Susan, and the Right to Self-Fashion.” NASSR, Winnipeg, 14 Aug. 2015. Winner of the Graduate Essay Prize.
“Repaying Her Debt: Mansfield Park’s Economies of Power.” JASNA, Montreal Chapter, 14 Dec. 2012.
Selected Fellowships and Awards
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). 2021-2023.
English Department Dissertation (Block Grant) Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, 2018-2019.
Simpson Literary Fellowship. Simpson Family Literary Project. UC Berkeley, 2018.
SSHRC Canada Doctoral Fellowship, UC Berkeley, 2013-2017.
Graduate Paper Prize, North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, 2015: “Gossip Economies: Jane Austen, Lady Susan, and the Right to Self-Fashion.”
SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship, Concordia University, 2010-2011.