Education
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
English; May, 2003
Dissertation: “‘The Unnatural, Inexplicable, Unaccountable,
Inconceivable’: Doubt, Anxiety, and Representation in the Gothic
Novel” (Catherine Gallagher, Chair)
M.A., Mills College
English and American Literature; Honors; May, 1997
B.A., Willamette University
English and History; May, 1995
Teaching Positions
Assistant Professor, Knox College, 2003 to present
Instructor, University of California, Berkeley, 1998 to 2003
Lecturer, Mills College, 2002
Teaching Assistant, University of California, Berkeley, 1998
Lecturer, Institute of Reading Development, 1996 to 1998
Instructor, Mills College, 1996
Teaching Interests
Enlightenment Literature
Romantic Literature
Victorian Literature
Narrative Theory
History of the Novel
The Gothic
History of Film
Theories of Adaptation
Recognition
Philip Green Wright-Lombard College Prize for Distinguished Teaching, 2007
Selected Professional Presentations and Publications:
“Great Adaptations.” In progress.
“Jane Austen and Bridget Jones,” Adaptation: British Literature of the Nineteenth Century and Film. Forthcoming.
NEH Summer Seminar for College and University Instructors
Participant: "Adaptation and Revision: The Example of Great Expectations," July, 2007
International Conference on Narrative
Conference Presenter: “Fictional Narrative, Adaptation, and Wuthering Heights,” March, 2007
“‘A Mere Tale of Spectres’: The Enlightenment and Shelley’s Frankenstein,” EnterText. Winter, 2005-2006
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
Conference Presenter: “Gothic Anxiety: Crises over Ontology,
Epistemology, and Language,” November, 2002
“Studies in the 18th-Century Novel,” UC Berkeley
Guest Lecturer: “Little Miss Reader: Frances Burney’s Evelina,”
November, 2002
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
Conference Presenter: “Coming to Terms with Great Expectations:
Complicating the Categories of Narration,” November, 1999
“Constance Naden,” Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers.
Abigail Boom, editor. Greenwood Press. July, 1999
Northwest Division, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Conference Presenter: "Reading as Misreading: Burney's Evelina
and Epistolary Convention," October, 1997
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers
Conference Presenter: "A Seer and Savant: The Life and Work of Constance
Naden," March, 1997
San Francisco Browning Society
Invited Lecturer: "Philosophy and Poetry," March, 1997
“Contemporary Women Writers,” Mills College
Guest Lecturer: “Writing as a Woman: E. Annie Proulx’s The Shipping
News,” February, 1997
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