Areas of Specialization

Nineteenth-century British literature and culture, the Victorian period, literature and medicine, disability studies, neo-Victorian literature

Publications

Book Chapters

• “Freaklore: The Dissemination, Fragmentation and Reinvention of the Legend of Daniel Lambert, King of Fat Men."  Victorian Freaks, Ed. Marlene Tromp, Ohio State University Press, 2008 37-59.
• “Access to the Sky: Fat Bodies and Airline Seats as Contested Spaces.” Forthcoming in The Fat Studies Reader. Eds. Sondra Solovay and Esther Rosenblum, New York University Press, 2009.
• “Corporeal Economies: Work and Waste in Nineteenth-Century Constructions of Alimentation.” Cultures of the Abdomen: Diet, Digestion and Fat in the Modern World. Eds. Christopher E. Forth and Ana Carden-Coyne. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. 31-49.
• “A ‘Horror of Corpulence’: Interrogating Bantingism and Mid-Nineteenth-Century Fat-phobia.” Bodies Out of Bounds: Fatness and Transgression. Eds. Jana Evans Braziel and Kathleen LeBesco. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. 39-59.
• "Fosco's Fat Drag: Performing the Victorian Fat Man in Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White."  Forthcoming in Historicizing Fat. Ed. Elena Levy-Navorro.  Ohio State University Press.

Articles

• "The Domesticated Monster: Freakishness and Masculinity in Fitz-James  O'Briens 'What Was It?" Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies. 4.2 (Summer 2008). http://www.ncgsjournal.com/issue42/issue42.htm

Conference Proceedings

• “Cameos, Coins and Character: Sir Walter Scott and the Invention of the Ballad Tradition.” Prometheus Unplugged? 12-14 Apr. 1996. Emory University.

Poems

• “The Hymn of a Fat Woman.” Gargoyle 44 (2002): 36. Reprinted in Poetry 180. The Library of Congress. Jan 2005. Reprinted in Plugged Into Reading. Charlotte Hall, MD: Recorded Books, Inc., 2008. 247."  Reprinted Skirt! Magazine. (April 2008). 94. <http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/097.html>

Book Reviews

• Review of Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse, by David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder, and Disability Discourse, by Mairian Corker and Sally French. The National Women’s Studies Association Journal. 14.3 (Fall 2002): 201-204.
• Review of Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Disability in American Literature and Culture, by Rosemarie Garland Thomson. College Literature 25.3 (Fall 1998): 200-202.

Courses

Graduate: Victorian Literature, Studies in the Novel, Literary Theory II, Seminar in Theory, Cultural Studies, Contemporary British Literature

Undergraduate: Nineteenth-Century British Literature, British Literature II, World Literary Masterpieces, Senior Seminar, Reading and Writing About Literature, Contemporary British Literature