B. A., Harvard University, Phi Beta Kappa

Ph.D., Princeton University

• Intro to Literary Study: Other Minds
• Environmental Humanities
• End Times: Global Fin-de-Siècle Literature
• Science Fiction & Speculative Writing (lit & creative writing workshop)
• Victorian Garbage: Disgust & Desire in British Literature & Culture (capstone)
• Green Romanticism (Environmental Studies): Nature & Otherness in Transatlantic Literature & Culture
• Jane Austen: Fiction, Film, Fan Cultures
• “British” Literary Traditions: Canon-Making/ Breaking 
• Steam, Speed, Modernity: Victorian/ Neo-Victorian Literature & Technology 
• First-year writing: Utopia/ The Good Place; Frankenstein 200; Our Animal Selves; Technobodies
• Questioning Literary Traditions: Gods, Monsters, Slaves, Rebels
• Vampires, Voyagers, and Angels: Victorian Literature and Culture
• Literature and Post/Colonialism: Worldmaking in Global Anglophone Literature

Primary fields: Victorian literature and culture, environmental studies, the history of science and technology, the novel, science fiction, neo-Victorian/ steampunk literature, global fin de siècles, utopian literature.

Other interests: 19^th-21^st-century British and American literature, Romantic poetry and prose, literature and film/ adaptation, serial media, Jane Austen, Anglophone writing, literary theory, cognitive theory, composition, ESL.

Books

The Lives of Machines: The Industrial Imaginary in Victorian Literature and Culture. University of Michigan Press, 2011 (252 pp.) – British Society for Literature and Science Annual Book Prize Shortlist

“Contrivance: Faith, Persuasion, and Technology in Victorian Scientific and Literary Culture.” Book manuscript in progress.

Selected Articles and Essays

“Bad Romance and Failed Mediation: Spirit and Matter in Wells’s The Invisible Man and The Wonderful Visit.” Victorian Studies 62.2 (Winter 2020)

“Lost Hands and Prosthetic Narratives: William Dodd, Writing at the Industrial Join,” Victorian Hands: The Manual Turn in the Nineteenth Century. Ohio State University Press, 2020.

“‘Savages’ and Spiritual Engines: Feeling the Machine in Wells’s Time Machine and ‘Lord of the Dynamos.’” Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens 87.1 (February 2018) – Keynote address to the French Society for Victorian and Edwardian Studies, University of Nantes, February 2017.

“Trollope’s Living Media: Fox-Hunts and Marriage Plots.” Edinburgh Companion to Anthony Trollope. Edinburgh University Press, 2019.

“The Energy of Belief: The Unseen Universe and the Spirit of Thermodynamics.” Strange Science: Investigating the Limits of Knowledge in the Victorian Age. University of Michigan Press, 2017.

“Learning through Victorian Garbage: Disgust and Desire in an Interdisciplinary Capstone Course.” Teaching Victorian Literature in the 21^st Century. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

“Spending Sprees and Machine Accidents: Martineau and the Mystery of Improvidence.” Harriet Martineau: Authorship, Society, Empire. Manchester University Press, 2010.

“‘Melancholy Mad Elephants’: Affect and the Animal Machine in Hard Times.” Victorian Studies 45.4 (Summer 2003) – Donald Gray Essay Prize, North American Victorian Studies Association, honorable mention

“Mesmerism, Martineau, and the ‘Night Side of Nature.’” Women’s Writing 9.3 (Fall 2002).