黑洞社区

Education:

• Ph.D. in English, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2016)
• M.A. in English, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2010)
• B.A. in English and International Studies, Southern Methodist University (2008)

Research Interests:

• eighteenth-century British media and culture
• history and technologies of the book
• early history of the periodical
• serial and ephemeral literature
• history of detective fiction and crime writing
• digitization and access
• GIS mapping, literature, and place

• eighteenth-century reprinting
  • volatility of reprint formats, economic competition, and notions of literary canon in the eighteenth-century print market
  • unexpected modes of production, circulation, and use of eighteenth-century texts
• detective fiction and crime writing
  • changes in genre before, during, and after development of police force
  • eighteenth- and nineteenth-century prison writing and convict transportation narratives
• digitization and access
  • searchability and use of digitized eighteenth-century texts
  • reading practices across time periods and formats

From medieval werewolf poems to AI story generators, I love teaching students about the vast and varied world of English literature and the histories and technologies that make literature possible. My courses are often interdisciplinary in nature and invite students to work with spaces like or Wichita's . 

Courses I teach regularly include:

• English 277: The Detective Story
• English 323: World Literature
• English 360: Major British Writers I
• English 378: Technologies of the Book
• English 524: Restoration & 18th-Century Literature (18th-Century Media Course)
• English 590: Senior Seminar
• English 700: Introduction to Graduate Study
• English 712: Graduate Studies in Fiction
• English 724: Restoration & 18th-Century Literature

 

• "Coconut Music." . Spring 2022.
• 鈥淟ocal Attention: Putting Melbourne on the Map in Fergus Hume鈥檚 Mystery of a Hansom Cab.鈥� Journal of Popular Culture, vol. 54, no. 6, December 2021, pp. 1331-1354.
•  鈥淪ocial Distance in the Long Eighteenth Century.鈥� Eighteenth-Century Theory and Interpretation, Special Supplement: 鈥淪cholarship in a Time of Crisis,鈥� Fall 2020.
• 鈥淪canner Darkly: Unpopularization in the Burney Newspaper Collection.鈥� Archives and Records, vol. 41, no. 3, 2020, pp. 215-235.
•  鈥溾�楩itted to the humour of the age鈥�: Alteration and Print in Swift鈥檚 A Tale of a Tub.鈥� Eighteenth-Century Fiction, vol. 26, no. 4, Summer 2014, pp. 515-536.
• 鈥淭essellated Texts: Reading The Moonstone in All the Year Round.鈥� Victorian Periodicals Review, vol. 45, no. 1, Spring 2012, pp. 1-22.

Book Manuscript in Progress:

• Volatile Forms: Reprinting Literature in the Eighteenth Century

Reviews:

•  British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Criticks Reviews, January 2012. 
  • Also available in audio for BSECS  10th-anniversary podcast, 2022. 
• Review of Kate Loveman's Samuel Pepys & his books: reading, newsgathering, and sociability, 1660鈥�1703, Prose Studies, vol. 38, no. 3, March 2017, pp. 271-272.

Forthcoming:

• 鈥淕one Girls: Transportation in Female Convict Narratives.鈥� Displacement in Texts of the Long Eighteenth-Century. Edited Collection. 

• 2011-present: American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS)
• 2015-present: Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, & Publishing (SHARP)
• 2015: ("Book Production and Social Practice in Early Modern Europe and America")
• 2019: Digital Humanities Summer Institute ("Geographical Information Systems in the Digital Humanities"
• 2019:  Harvard Center for Geographic Analysis Workshop ("Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for the Humanities and Social Sciences")
• 2021: ("Textual Connected Histories: Books and Reading in the Early Modern European World")

 

• 2020-present: 黑洞社区 Retention Faculty Fellow
• 2019-present: Faculty Sponsor, 黑洞社区 chapter of Sigma Tau Delta
• 2019-present: Faculty Advisor, 黑洞社区 Society of Cosplayers