Drew University: MA, MPhil, PhD, English Literature

University of Delaware: BA, English Education

Areas of Specialization: British Romantic Literature; African American Literature
Teaching Areas: British Romantic Literature; Literary Theory; Feminist and Psychoanalytic Theory; African American Literature

Books

Mekler, L. Adam, and Lucy Morrison, editors. Mary Shelley: Her Circle and Her Contemporaries. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010.

Book Chapters
“Playing Devil’s Advocate: Defending the Criminal Justice System in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.” Frankenstein and STEAM: Essays for Charles E. Robinson, edited by Robin Hammerman, University of Delaware Press, 2022, pp. 104-24.

“Hideous Progenies: Mary Shelley, John Polidori, and Incest in the Godwinian Novel.”
Mekler and Morrison 45-61.

“‘Altered by a thousand distortions’: Dream-Work in Mary Shelley’s Early Novels.” CEA-MAGazine. 16 (2003): 38-49. Rpt. in Modern Critical Views: Mary Shelley. Ed. Harold Bloom. NY: Facts on File, 2008, pp. 67-74.

Journal Articles

“Broken Mirrors and Multiplied Reflections in Lord Byron and Mary Shelley.” Studies in Romanticism. 46.4 (2007): 461-80.

“Gender, Class, and Mental Health in Mary Lamb’s Mrs. Leicester’s School.” Journal for the
Advancement of Educational Research. 3.1 (2007): 142-47.

“‘This ain’t no slavery time talk’: The Evolution of African American Folklore in Hurston’s ‘Go Gator and Muddy the Water.’” Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Journal of Florida Literature. 12 (2003): 25-35.

“Recovering the Absent Mother in Jane Austen and Mary Shelley” CEA-MAGazine. 15 (2002): 24-36.

“Placing Maurice Within the Shelley-Godwin Circle.” CEA-MAGazine. 14 (2001): 23-33.

“‘Freedom Found Me’: Their Eyes Were Watching God and the Slave Narrative Form.” Middle-Atlantic Writers Association Review. 14.1 (1999). 24-30.

“Mules, Men, and Women: Zora Neale Hurston’s Use of Folklore.” Journal of the Middle States Council for the Social Studies. 14 (1992-93): 36-44.