Scholarship

My research interests include nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature with a focus on book history, material culture studies, and media studies. For information about my current project, see Work in Progress.

PUBLICATIONS

“With Press and Paddle: William H. H. Murray’s ‘Adirondack’ Lectures and the Making of a Wilderness Guide.” The Cosmopolitan Lyceum: Lecture Culture and the Globe in Nineteenth-Century America. Edited by Tom F. Wright. 113–29. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2013.

“Un-Eclipsed: An Interview with Patricia Burke Brogan.” (co-authored with Jessica Farley) Irish Studies Review 18, no. 3 (August 2010): 347–57.

CONFERENCES

Presenter

“The Author on Stage: The Redpath Lyceum Bureau and the Promotion of the ‘Literary’ Lecture.” American Literature Association. Boston, MA (May 2013).

For a brief discussion of this talk and its hosting panel, “Nineteenth-Century Orality and Literacy,” please see “The Year in Conferences–2013” in ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 60, no. 1 (2014): 150.

“With Press and Paddle: How William H. H. Murray Became a Wilderness Guide.” The Cosmopolitan Lyceum: Globalism and Lecture Culture in Nineteenth-Century America. American Antiquarian Society. Worcester, MA (September 2011)

“Stuck on Terry: Ellen’s Terry’s American Lecture Tour and the ‘Paper Clippings’ of a Fanatic.” American Literature Association. San Francisco, CA (May 2010).

“Scrapbooks and SuperFans: May Ward’s Tribute to Ellen Terry.” Invited Speaker, Osher Institute of Lifelong Learning, Wilmington, DE (March 2010); Interpreting Objects: Material Culture Studies Colloquium. University of Delaware (November 2009).

“Edith Wharton and Vernon Lee’s Writings on Writing.” Edith Wharton and History. Lenox, MA (June 2008).

Organizer

Co-chair with Melissa Ianetta, “And Gladly Teach? Pedagogy, Practice, and the Teaching of Literature,” Goodstay Center, University of Delaware (Spring 2013)

Co-chair with Theodore Triandos and Alessandra Wood, “Material Culture Symposium for Emerging Scholars,” University of Delaware and Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library (Spring 2011)

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