My research in Victorian literature primarily focuses on the novel and other narrative forms, the Victorian Gothic and other popular literary genres, 19th-century psychology and affect, 19th-century sociomedical discourses, and Empire studies. My research in cinema primarily focuses on popular genres (Horror and SF), literature and film, trauma theory, and film spectatorship.
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Victorian literature, cinema, narrative, genre, cultural studies, 19th-century science and medicine, literary theory, psychoanalysis, gender and sexuality, trauma theory, popular culture and popular genres, the British Empire, literature and affect
ENGL 1220 - From Gothic to Horror
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Spring 2021 / Fall 2021 / Spring 2022
Explores literature in the Gothic mode and aesthetic and critical theories related to modern "horror" genres or their precursors. Introduces literary-critical concepts (such as notions of abjection, repression and anxiety) that developed alongside this branch of literature. Students read canonical works in British and American traditions while reflecting on notions of popular or marginalized literature.
ENGL 2504 - Enlightenment and Modernity
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Fall 2021
Surveys key trends and works in literature after 1660, focusing on issues such as modernity; national or colonial identities; political, economic, social, technologic and scientific revolutions; and reading and media technologies. Students will be encouraged to read aloud, explore unfamiliar literary forms, and share their ideas and questions. Formerly ENGL 2512.
ENGL 3604 - Victorian Literature
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Fall 2024
This course studies how literature and culture represent the upheavals of the nineteenth century, including industrialization, the science of evolution, and the expansion of the British Empire. Realist, Gothic, and Sensation novels thrived during this period and people turned to poetry to mourn, to celebrate, to seduce, and to inspire. This literature helped to establish literary forms and social and political ideas that remain influential today.
ENGL 4026 - Special Topics in Genre, Media, and Advanced Writing
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Fall 2023
Studies theoretical and historical approaches to genre, media, and writing at the advanced level. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours for different topics.
ENGL 4039 - Capstone in Literary Studies
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Spring 2018 / Spring 2023
Topic varies by section, but all sections include small seminar discussions and focus on an individualized research project related to the topic. This course will draw on skills from previous courses in critical reading, thinking, and writing and will culminate in high-level discussions and in the final project. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours.
ENGL 5059 - British Literature and Culture After 1800
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Fall 2022 / Spring 2024
Introduces graduate level study of Romantic, Victorian, Modern, and/or Postmodern writing. Topics will vary. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours.
ENGL 7489 - Advanced Special Topics
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Fall 2020
Studies special topics in theory, culture, and literature of any period. Topics will vary. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours.
