Academic Profile

Specializes in the Victorian novel, nineteenth-century British literature and culture, narrative analysis, gender theory, and generic distinctions and conventions.  She is completing a book on the surprising prevalence of bigamy in the Victorian novel, from sensational plots to “simultaneous” remarriages in novels like Jane Eyre, David Copperfield, and Middlemarch.

Publications

• “Soul-mates: David Copperfield’s Angelic Bigamy,” Victorian Studies 52.2 (Winter 2010): 191-218.
• “The Discipline of Tears in The Old Curiosity Shop,” Dickens Studies Annual 42 (2011)

Book Project

• The Shadowy Third: Bigamy and the Victorian Novel