Director of Writing Programs, Loyola University Chicago, 1994-1999
Program Areas
Victorian Novel
Gender Studies
Feminist Theory
Theory of the Novel
Research Interests
Religion and Literature
Secularism
William Makepeace Thackeray
Charlotte and Emily Brontë
Selected Publications
Books:
Thackeray and Women. Northern Illinois University Press, 1995.
In Progress: Emily Brontë and Mysticism.
Articles:
[Forthcoming] “Willie Collins’s Moonstone, and the Emergence of a Global Secular Modernity,” Religion and Literature, vol. 49, no. 2, Fall 2018, Notre Dame University.
“Charlotte Brontë’s Villette, Mid-Victorian Anti-Catholicism, and the turn to Secularism.” ELH, vol. 78, 2011, pp. 967-989.
“Emily Brontë’s ‘No Coward Soul’ and the Need for a Religious Literary Criticism.” Victorians Institute Journal, vol.37, 2009, pp. 195-223.
“Celluloid Satire, or the Moviemaker as Moralist: Mira Nair’s Adaptation of Thackeray’s Vanity Fair.” In In/Fidelity: Essays on Film Adaptation. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008, pp. 38-59.
“Teaching Hopkins Without Embarrassment: Catholic Identity and Intellectual Integrity.” America, vol. 184, May 21, 2001, pp. 6-11.
“Brontë's Jane Eyre and the Grimms' Cinderella: Fairy Tale as Feminist Allegory." Studies in English Literature, vol. 40, Autumn 2000, pp. 695-710.