Education

A. B. (1984), Brown University
A. M. in Creative Writing (1986), Brown University
Ph.D. (1990), Harvard University

Research

Contemporary British fiction, Victorian novels, postcolonial literature, narrative theory, the novel in English, psychological approaches to literary study.

Teaching

English 350—Postcolonial Literature
English 351—World Fiction in English
English 355—Studies in British Fiction after 1900. See also 356
English 292—Topics in British Literature
English 260—Literary Approaches to Poverty
English 234—Children's Literature
English 232—The Novel. See also 207.
Writing 100—First Year Writing Seminar: Schools of Magic

Frequently used handouts.

Seminar and Capstone Topics

Charles Dickens and His Circle
Thomas Hardy, Novelist and Poet
Romancing the Archive
Studying Literature in Action
The Brontës
George Eliot and her Times
Philip Pullman and C. S. Lewis: Rival Canons
A Comic Novel Sequence: Powell’s A Dance to the Music of Time

Bread Loaf School of English (Santa Fe, NM)

Ulysses: Homer, Joyce, Walcott. 2010 syllabus.
Thomas Hardy. 2010 syllabus
Contemporary British Fiction. 2007 syllabus.
Moderns according to the Contemporaries. 2008 syllabus.

Selected Publications

Books and Edited Volumes

Guest editor, Narrative and the Emotions (II). Poetics Today 32.2 (Summer 2011).

Guest editor, Narrative and the Emotions (I). Poetics Today 32.1 (Spring 2011).

Empathy and the Novel. Oxford UP, 2007. Publisher's Information. Paperback edition, 2010.

Milk Glass Mermaid. Lewis Clark P, 2007. Available through Amazon.

Narrative Form. Palgrave, 2003. Publisher's information.

Romances of the Archive in Contemporary British Fiction. U of Toronto P, 2001. Paperback edition, 2003.

Victorian Renovations of the Novel: Narrative Annexes and the Boundaries of Representation. Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture 15. Ed. Gillian Beer and Catherine Gallagher. Cambridge UP, 1998. Paperback edition, 2005. NetLibrary information.