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Interests

The 18th and 19th Century Novel, Feminist Theory, and Material Culture

Dissertation Title

"Earthly Things: Exotic Objects and the Fashioning of Empire in British Literature of the Nineteenth Century"

Currently

8^th Grade English Teacher and Middle School Writing Center Coordinator at the Hockaday School. I also recently joined the board for the Woodrow Wilson Community Foundation.

Publications

“Pastoral Authorship and Porcelain Figurines: Pope’s Elite Aesthetic and the Fashionable Decorative Commodity,” in Fashion and Authorship: Literary Production and Cultural Style from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-First Century, Edited by Gerald Egan. Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. 

“The Victorian ‘Cameo Craze’: Cameos, Femininity, and the Fashioning of Britain’s Imperial Identity.” Victorian Review 42 (Spring 2016): 167-184.

“‘Jezebel’s Monopoly of the Rouge Pot’: Cosmetics, anti-Semitism, and Xenophobia in Victorian Print Culture.” Victorians Institute Journal 43 (Fall 2016): 7-40.

“‘True Indian Muslin’ and the Politics of Consumption in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey.” Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 15.2 (Spring 2015): 5-26.