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Interests

17th- and 18th-century British literature; colonial discourse; ecocriticism and environmental literature;contemporary global literatures

 

Dissertation Title

"Orienting Virtue: Morals, Markets, and Global Modernity in English literature, 1660-1800"

 

Currently

Associate Professor of English, Biola University, CA

 

Publications

Orienting Virtue: Civic Identity and Orientalism in Britain's Global Eighteenth Century. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2022.

“Inexhaustible Mines and Postlapsarian Decay: the End of Improvement in Defoe’s Tour.” Eighteenth-Century Fiction 32.1 (2019): 79-99.

“Margaret Cavendish, the Royal Society, and the Alchemy of the Arabian Sands.” Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 17.1 (2017): 120-146.