EDUCATION

A.B., Radcliffe College
Ph.D., Boston College

ACADEMIC PROFILE

Specializes in Victorian and Modern Novel, Victorian Studies, and autobiographical narrative.

COURSES

 EN131.02 - Studies in Poetry

 EN133.01 - Narrative/Interpretation

 EN364.01 - 19th Century British Fiction

 EN386.01 - Modern British Fiction

 EN552.01 - London in the Novel

 769.01 - Dickens

PUBLICATIONS (SELECTED)

• Knowing Dickens (2007).
• The Politics of Story in Victorian Social Fiction (1988).
• The Real Life of Mary Ann Evans: George Eliot, Her Letters and Fiction (1994).
• "Knowing and Telling in David Copperfield," in Knowing the Past: Victorian Literature and Culture, ed. Suzy Anger (Ithica: Cornell UP, 2001), pp. 215-233/
• "Autobiography in Fragments: The Elusive Life of Edith Simcox," Victorian Studies 44 (Spring 2002): 399-422.
• "Dickens and the Identical Man: Our Mutual Friend Doubled," Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction 31(2002): 159-74.