Academic Appointments
Associate Professor of English Literature and Cultural Studies, School of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA, 2010-present
Assistant Professor of English Literature and Cultural Studies, School of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA, 2003-2010.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature, School of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA, 1999-2003.
Teaching Interests
Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century British Literature
Women’s/Social/Cultural History
Modernism/Modernity
Film Studies (History and Theory)
Print Media/Popular Culture
Feminist Theory/Women’s and Gender Studies
Urban Studies
COURSES DEVELOPED AND TAUGHT, HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE, 1999-2016
HACU 134f/HACU 181 Critical Writing: The Essay as Form and Genre
HACU 135T/HACU 178 Victorian Childhood: Self and Society in the Nineteenth Century
HACU 154 Reading Romantic and Victorian Poetry
HACU 155 Introduction to Film Studies: History and Theory, 1895-1960 (co-taught with Eva Rueschmann)
HACU 173 Sex, Science, and the Victorian Body (co-taught with Pam Stone)
HACU 199 Division I Independent Projects in Humanities and Cultural Studies
HACU 202 Introduction to Textual Studies: Literature and/as History (Mansfield Park)
HACU 221 History of Women and Feminisms in Britain and the United States (co-taught with Susan Tracy)
HACU 223 Woman and Poet
HACU 226 Literature and Class (co-taught with Eric Schocket)
HACU 231 Between “Race” and Culture: Representing Jews and Others in American and British Literature (co-taught with Rachel Rubinstein)
HACU 235 Odd Women: Gender, Class and Victorian Culture
HACU 237 The Brontë Sisters
HACU 253 The City in Literature and Early Cinema
HACU 259 Genre Seminar: Melodrama and Film Noir
HACU 261 The 1930s on Film: Hollywood Before and After the Code
HACU 262 Victorian Sensations, Or, When Old Media Were New
HACU 277 Film Theory Seminar: Gender and Genre
HACU 282 Middlemarch and Victorian Culture (co-taught with Jeff Wallen)
HACU 283 Engendering Imperialism: The Nineteenth-Century Novel and the British Empire
HACU 286 Serials and the Production of Popular Culture
HACU 294 Joyce and Woolf in Context (co-taught with L. Brown Kennedy)
HACU 298 The Future of Feminist Theory
HACU 315 Reading the Romance: Women and Popular Culture
HACU 335 Mass Culture Seminar