Below is a selected list of my publications and presentations. My recent work investigates the interaction between the economy--specifically a culture grounded in credit--and fiction in early America from approximately 1785-1840. I am also working on the scholarship of teaching and exploring the ways in which faculty members can continually improve upon our teaching practices.
Articles
"'Reviewers Reviewed': John Davis and the Early American Literary Field." Early American Literature 42.1 (Spring 2007): 157-188.
"'Truth-Telling Accents': The Business of Storytelling in Nathaniel Hawthorne's Legends of the Province House." Auto-Poetica: Representations of the Creative Process in Nineteenth Century British and American Fiction. Rowman & Littlefield Publishing, 2006.
"Charles Brockden Brown's Ormond, Property Exchange, and the Literary Marketplace in the Early American Republic," Studies in the Novel, 37.1 (Spring 2005).
"Early American Print Culture in a Digital Age: Pedagogical Possibilities," Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture 3.2 (2003).
"Digitizing the Past: Using Electronic Texts in Scholarship and the Classroom," Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 19.1 (2002).
Recent Conference Activity
"In Debt to Letters: The Literary Response to Incarceration for Debt in the Early Republic." Society of Early Americanists, Williamsburg, VA, June 2-5, 2007.
"'The Ravages of the Critical Scalping Knife': John Davis and the American Review." Brown in the Bayou, New Orleans, LA, November 2-4, 2006.
"The Pedagogy of Blogs," (co-presented with Ilene Crawford), Connecticut State University Academic Computing Conference, ECSU, April 8, 2006.
"Scholarship in the Digital World: Preparing for the Future." Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Washington, D.C., 27-30 December 2005.
Chair and Organizer, "The Economies of Early American Literature," Society of Early Americanists, Arlington, VA, 31 March-02 April, 2005.
"Robert Morris, `The Man at Home,' and Brown's Fictionalized Debtor," Circles and Circulation in the Revolutionary Atlantic World of Charles Brockden Brown, New York, NY, 21-23 October 2004.
"Teaching the Trans-Atlantic Industrial Revolution," Modern Language Association Annual Convention, San Diego, CA, 27-30 December 2003.
"Jane Talbot: Letters and the Public Sphere in Brown's Un-Domestic Novel," Society of Early Americanists, Brown University, 10-13 April 2003.
"Early American Print Culture in a Digital Age: Pedagogical Possibilities," New Frontiers in Early American Literature, University of Virginia, 8-10 August 2002.
"John Davis, Print Culture, and the Battle over Interpretive Authority," American Literature Association, Long Beach, CA, 30 May-02 June 2002.
(Updated February 2008)