About
I specialize in nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century British, American, and post-colonial literature. I completed my Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin. My dissertation addresses questions of form and the intersectionality of gender, race, and class in the works of Eliot and Woolf. I completed my undergraduate degree at the University of Cambridge. I am currently one of the co-editors for the Woolf Miscellany and a member of the steering committee for the Elizabeth von Arnim Society. I have published articles on Shakespeare, George Eliot, and Charlotte Brontë and I have contributed book chapters on Henry James, Joseph Conrad, and George Eliot. In 2019, I won the George Eliot Fellowship Essay Prize for my essay on water symbolism in Romola and I am currently co-authoring a companion to George Eliot, scheduled for publication by McFarland in 2023, and working on a book entitled, George Eliot and Her Women, scheduled for publication in 2023. Education
Ph.D., English, University of Texas at Austin, 2021
· Dissertation: ‘The Perception of Separateness’: Experimentations with Form and Intersectionality in the Writing of George Eliot and Virginia Woolf
· Advisors: Prof. Carol MacKay (co-chair), Prof. Alexandra Wettlaufer (co-chair)
· Committee Members: Dr. Anne Fernald, Dr. Samuel Baker, Dr. Linda Ferreira-Buckley
M.A., Jewish Studies, Spertus Institute, expected June 2022
Graduate Certificate, American History, American Public University, expected June 2022
M.A., English, University of Texas at Austin 2020
B.A. (Honors) English, University of Cambridge 2018
Publications
— PUBLICATIONS —
Books
George Eliot and Her Women. Lexington Books, Rowman and Littlefield. Under contract and forthcoming, 2022.
McFarland’s Companion to George Eliot. With Beverley Park Rilett. McFarland. Under contract and forthcoming, 2022.
Peer-Reviewed Articles
[Under Review] “Washington Irving’s Medieval Renaissance: Chaucer’s Influence on Irving’s Foundational Project.” English Studies.
‘“[A]s plain as water’s water”: the Symbolic Function of Water in George Eliot’s Romola’. The George Eliot Review, 2019, pp. 26-33.
‘“[P]assionate, magnificent prose’: Tracing the Brontës in the Friendship and Writings of Elizabeth von Arnim and Katherine Mansfield’. Katherine Mansfield Studies, 2019, pp. 132-144.
“‘[O]nly a psychological phenomenon’: Situating Tess of the D’Urbervilles in and out of Hardy’s Wessex’. The Thomas Hardy Journal, 15, 1, 2019, pp. 39-52.
“Two Janes: Jane Eyre and the Narrative Problem of Chapter 23.” The Bronte Studies Journal, 41:4, 2016, pp. 312-321
“Perception, Performance, and Community Spirit in George Eliot’s “Amos Barton”.” Global Journal of English Language and Literature. 2015.
“The Ordinary and the Common in the Writings of Virginia Woolf.” The Atlantic Review of Feminist Studies, 2.2. Nov. 2015.
“The Dichotomy of Cultural Perspective in George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda.” East-West Cultural Passage, Journal of the “C. Peter Magrath” Research Center for Cross-Cultural Studies. Nov. 2015.
“Sure I shall never marry like my sisters”: The Measure of Marriage in Shakespeare’s King Lear.” Gender Forum, 49, Sept. 2014.
Book Chapters
“Misogyny, Objectification, and The Suppression of Female Identity in An Introduction to Sally.” Elizabeth von Arnim and Identities. Forthcoming.
“George Eliot: Behind the Mask.” Still Crazy About George Eliot After 200 Years. Bite-sized Books. 2019.
“Social Exile in Nineteenth-Century England.” European Writers in Exile. Lexington Books, Rowman and Littlefield, 2018, pp. 1-15.
“Heart of Darkness and the Problem of Faith.” Critical Insights: Joseph Conrad. Salem Press/Greyhouse Publishing Inc. 2016, pp. 206-222.
“The battle of the sexes: D.H. Lawrence and the struggle for modern sexuality in Lady Chatterley’s Lover.”Critical Essays on D.H. Lawrence. Atlantic Publishers and Distributors. 2016.
“Henry James and the Dilemma of Young Americans.” American Writers in Exile. Salem Press/Greyhouse Publishing Inc. 2015, pp. 88-103.
“The Heart of a King.” Global Women Leaders: Studies in Feminist Political Rhetoric. Lexington Books, Rowman and Littlefield. 2014, pp. 3-18.
Reviews
Suzanne Bailey, Cognitive Style, and Perceptual Difference in Browning’s Poetry (London: Routledge 2010). British Society of Literature and Science.
Wyatt Bonikowski, Shell Shock and the Modernist Imagination: The Death Drive in Post-World War I British Fiction (Oxford: Routledge 2013). British Society of Literature and Science.
Will Abberley, English Fiction and the Evolution of Language, 1850-1914 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2015). British Society of Literature and Science.
Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet, The Poetics and Politics of the American Gothic (Farnham: Ashgate 2010). British Society of Literature and Science. Projects
George Eliot and Her Women
Edited edition of The Voyage Out (student-orientated) Memberships
British Women Writers Association
Elizabeth Von Arnim Society
George Eliot Fellowship
International Virginia Woolf Society
Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies Association
Modern Languages Association
North American Victorian Studies Association
Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association
