| Degree: |
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1993 |
| Area Groups: |
Film Studies and Cultural Studies; LGBT Studies; Literary Theory; Modern British; Victorian |
| Major Publications: |
Embodied: Victorian Literature and the Senses (University of Minnesota Press, 2008); Filth: Dirt, Disgust, and Modern Life , edited with Ryan Johnson (University of Minnesota Press, 2005); Sex Scandal: The Private Parts of Victorian Fiction (Duke University Press, 1996).
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| Articles: |
PMLA, Critical Survey, Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Novel: A Forum on Fiction, ELH, Genders, South Atlantic Quarterly, Victorian Studies, Theatre Journal, The Queer Sixties, Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism (Bedford Great Expectations), Thinking the Limits of the Body.
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| Other Publications: |
Selected Presentations
Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, University of London (2009); Plenary lecture, British Association for Victorian Studies Conference, “Victorian Feeling: Touch, Bodies, Emotions,” University of Leicester (2008); Theories of the Novel Now (2007); Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research, Texas A&M University (2006); North American Victorian Studies Association Conference (2005); Keynote lecture, Dickens and Sex Conference, Birkbeck College, University of London (2004); Nineteenth-Century Research Group, University of Exeter, England (2004); Locating the Victorians, Science Museum, London (2001); Oscar Wilde and the Culture of the Fin de Siècle, Clark Library, UCLA (1999); Conference on the Senses, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (1998); MLA Convention (1993, 1994, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2008); Narrative Conference (1995, 1997, 1998, 2003).
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| Teaching & Service: |
Consultant reader, PMLA, Feminist Studies, Novel. MLA Executive Committee on Prose Fiction, 2000-2005; affiliate in Comparative Literature; LGBT Studies Faculty Oversight Committee.
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| Fellowships & Prizes: |
William Andrews Clark and Huntington Library fellowships (2009); General Research Board Semester Research Award (2005); Center for Teaching Excellence Instructional Improvement Grant (2003); Camargo Foundation, Cassis, France (2000); Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, Wesleyan University (1994-95).
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