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Associate Professor of English
Ph.D. 1999, Harvard; M.A. 1993, Emory University; B.A. 1993.
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Research Interests: Eighteenth-Century literature; the interrelationship of novel and lyric; neural aesthetics; imagination and aesthetics
Fellowships/Honors: Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellowship, 2003-04; Golden Dozen Teaching Award, NYU; Mellon Foundation Dissertation Completion Grant, 1998-99; Harvard University Graduate Prize Fellowship, Fall 1997; Annie Dexter Travel Fellowship, 1997; Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Harvard University, Fall 1996 and Spring 1997; Robert T. Jones Visiting Fellow, St. Andrews University, 1993-94; Alexander Means Scholar, Emory University, 1989-93.
Selected Works:
"Poetic Subjects and Grecian Urns: Close Reading and the Tools of Cognitive Science" Modern Philology 105:1 2007
"Cavendish, Aesthetics, and the Anti-Platonic Line" Eighteenth-Century Studies 29:3 2005
"Objects, Imaginings, and Facts: Going Beyond Genre in Behn and Defoe" Eighteenth-Century Fiction 16:4 2004
Lyric Generations: Novel and Poetry in the Long Eighteenth Century. 2004.
"Ethics, Meaning, and the Work of Beauty." Eighteenth-Century Studies. 35:3. 2002. 361-378
"Clarissa’s Relics and Lyric Community." Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, 30. 2001. 127-151.
"Love’s Proper Musick: Lyric Inflection in Behn’s Epsitles," in Aphra Behn: Identity, Alterity, Ambiguity. Paris: L’Harmattan. 2000.
"Rereading Prose Fiction: Lyric Convention in Aphra Behn and Eliza Haywood." Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 12, 1. October 1999. 1-18.
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