I work primarily on British literature of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and the Romantic period, with particular focus on prose fiction, Scottish literature, and literary representations of poverty. My theoretical specializations include the environmental humanities — especially animal studies —, post-humanism, and post-structuralism. My recent and forthcoming work relates to economic theory, aesthetics, the emergent sciences of perceptual physiology, and the eighteenth-century reorganization of social, political, and organic life as livestock.
University of Virginia Press, 2013. Winner: Walker Cowen Prize, 2011; Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title, 2014
ARTICLES/CHAPTERS
“Pastoral against Pastoral Modernity: Voices of Shepherds and Sheep in James Hogg’s Scotland,” European
Romantic Review 26:5 (2015): 527–49
“Sexual Arithmetic: Appetite and Consumption in The Way of the World,” Eighteenth-Century
Studies 47:3 (Spring 2014)
“Forward from MacFlecknoe: British Literature, 1660-the Present,” essay in forthcoming MLA volume,
Approaches to Teaching John Dryden, ed. Jayne Lewis and Lisa Zunshine, New York: MLA, 2013
“‘Stock the Parish with Beauties’: Henry Fielding’s Parochial Vision,” PMLA: Publications of
the Modern Language Association 125:2 (May 2010)
“An Englishwoman’s Workhouse is Her Castle: Poor Management and Gothic Fiction in the 1790s,”
ELH (English Literary History) 74:3 (Fall 2007)
“Breeches of Decorum: Addison, Montaigne, and the Figure of a Barbarian,” South Central Review 23:2
(Summer 2006)
“Homunculus Economicus: Laurence Sterne’s Labor Theory of Literary Value,” Eighteenth-Century Fiction
18:1 (October 2005)
“Confessions of a Gentrified Sinner: Secrets in Scott and Hogg,” Studies in Romanticism 41:1 (Spring 2002)
“Ann Radcliffe’s Gothic Narrative and the Readers at Home,” Studies in the Novel 31:4 (Winter 1999)