About
Nineteenth-Century British Literature
Interdisciplinary Studies
Coming-of-Age Literature
Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Literature and Culture
Romanticism
Victorianism
The Long Nineteenth Century
Women’s and Gender Studies
Women’s Literature Education
Ph.D. in English, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, May 2015
- Dissertation: “The Buried Life of the Facts of Life: Female Physical Development in Nineteenth-Century British Coming-of-Age Literature”
- Certifications: Nineteenth-Century Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies
- Committee: Laura M. White (chair), Stephen C. Behrendt, Peter J. Capuano, Carole Levin
- Language: Spanish
M.S. in English, Utah State University, May 2008
- Thesis: “Rereading and Rewriting Women’s History”
- Committee: Evelyn I. Funda (chair), Steve Shively, Anne Shifrer
B.A. in English, Brigham Young University, April 2005
- London Study Abroad, 2005
Publications
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
- “George MacDonald’s Frightening Female: Menopause and Makemnoit in The Light Princess.” North Wind: A Journal of George MacDonald Studies, vol. 33, 2014, pp. 21-34.
- “Les filles du roi and Female Destinations in Shadows on the Rock.” Willa Cather Newsletter and Review, edited by Robert Thacker, vol. 54 no. 1, Summer 2010, pp. 16-21.
Book Chapters
- “A World of Girls.” The Companion to Victorian Popular Fiction. Edited by Kevin A. Morrison, McFarland. [Publication Forthcoming]
- “L. T. Meade.” The Companion to Victorian Popular Fiction. Edited by Kevin A. Morrison, McFarland. [Publication Forthcoming]
- “The Intersection of L.T. Meade’s Professional and Domestic Victorian Celebrity.” Gender and Work: Intersectionality, Resistance, and Identity. Edited by Miglena Sternadori and Carrie Prentice, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2016, pp. 198-210.
- “Rewriting Female Representations in Girl with a Pearl Earring & Girl in Hyacinth Blue: Historical Female Portraiture, Human Subjectivity, and Johannes Vermeer’s Work.” Art and the Artist in Society. Edited by José Jiménez-Justiniano, Elsa Luciano Feal, and Jane Elizabeth Alberdeston, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2013, pp. 71-84.
- “Fernand Léger and Willa Cather’s ‘Coming, Aphrodite!’” Willa Cather and Aestheticism: From Romanticism to Modernism. Edited by Ann Moseley and Sarah Cheney Watson, Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2012, pp. 139-152.
Book Reviews
- The Making of Modern Children’s Literature in Britain: Publishing and Criticism in the 1960s and 1970s by Lucy Pearson. Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature, vol. 69 no. 1, 2015, pp. 111-112.
- Performing Authorship in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Lecture Tour by Amanda Adams. Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, vol. 47 no. 2, Fall 2014, pp. 199-201.
- Weeds: A Farm Daughter’s Lament by Evelyn I. Funda. Prairie Schooner: Briefly Noted, vol. 3 no. 2, Mar. 2014, prairieschooner.unl.edu/blog/briefly-noted-%E2%80%93-march-2014.
- The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith. Prairie Schooner: Briefly Noted, vol. 2 no. 5, Sept. 2013, prairieschooner.unl.edu/blog/briefly-noted-%E2%80%93-september-2013.
- A Gentleman of Leisure (or, The Intrusion of Jimmy) by P. G. Wodehouse. Prairie Schooner: Briefly Noted, vol. 2 no. 5, Aug. 2013, prairieschooner.unl.edu/blog/briefly-noted-%E2%80%93-august-2013.
- Are We There Yet?: Virtual Travel and Victorian Realism by Alison Byerly. Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature, vol. 67 no .2, Fall 2013, pp. 153-156.
- The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories by Ethan Rutherford. Prairie Schooner: Briefly Noted, vol 2 no. 4, July 2013, prairieschooner.unl.edu/blog/briefly-noted-july-2013.
- The Days Are Gods by Liz Stephens. Prairie Schooner: Briefly Noted, vol. 2 no. 3, June 2013, prairieschooner.unl.edu/node/1290.
- Imaginary Citizens: Child Readers and the Limits of American Independence, 1640-1868 by Courtney Weikle-Mills. Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, vol. 45 no.1, Spring 2012, pp. 108-111.
Memberships
Current Professional Memberships
Modern Language Association
North American Victorian Studies Association
Past Professional Memberships
Children’s Literature Association
Midwest Modern Language Association
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association
Sigma Tau Delta International English Honor Society
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association
Willa Cather Foundation