Teaching interests: 19th-century British literature and culture; History of the novel; Women's writing; Gender studies; Literature and film

Research interests: My research brings together gender studies, narrative theory, and new economic criticism in order to analyze the relationship between gender, character, and economics in 19th-century political economy and imaginative writing. In my current book project, Economic Woman: Gender, Character, and Political Economy in Victorian Women’s Writing, I trace dialogical relations between women’s fiction, poetry, and discursive prose and texts of classical economics.  I am also working on an article that examines alcohol addiction in George Gissing’s The Odd Women in the context of emerging economic theories about gender, desire, and consumption.

Brief biography: I earned my Ph.D. from the University of Washington in June 2005. Recent publications include:

“Refashioning the “cold, dry form” of economic theory: language, gender, and economic subjectivity in Illustrations of Political Economy.” Essay collection on Harriet Martineau (forthcoming). Eds. Cora Kaplan and Ella Dzelzainis.

“The Economics of ‘a bit of victual’, or the Relationship between Malthus and Mothers in Adam Bede.” Victorian Literature and Culture (forthcoming)

“’The least ‘Angelical’ poem in the language’: Political Economy, Gender, and the Heritage of Aurora Leigh.” Victorian Poetry 44 (Winter 2006): 525-542