20th/21st Century

Film, New Media, Theory

Education

• PhD, English Language and Literature, University of Virginia (2006)
• MA, English Language and Literature, University of Virginia (2003)
• BA, English Language and Literature, Earlham College (1995)

Research Interests

• Form, theory, and history of narrative
• Victorian and Modernist British literature
• Narrative ethics
• Inclusive pedagogies, curricula, and program assessments
• Undergraduates' wellness

Select Publications

• Feminist Narrative Ethics: Tacit Persuasion in Modernist Form (Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2014).
• “Mid-Pandemic Pedagogy: A Candid Dialogue between Student and Literature Professor.” Co-authored with VCU sophomore English major Emma Carlson. Literature 2 (2022): 62-76.
• “When a Plan Comes Together: An Analysis of Assessment Plans from Accredited U.S. Journalism and Mass Communication Programs.” Co-authored with Timothy Bajkiewicz. Journalism and Mass Communication Educator. Under peer review.
• “Overt and Covert Narrative Structure: A Reconsideration of Jane Eyre,” in Twenty-First-Century Perspectives on Victorian Literature, ed. Laurence W. Mazzeno (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014), 75–85.
• “Narrative Structure,” in The Encyclopedia of the Novel, ed. Peter Melville Logan, Olakunle George, Susan Hegeman, and Efraín Kristal (Chichester, West Sussex, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), 545–49.

Affiliations

• International Society for the Study of Narrative
• American Association of Colleges and Universities
• American Association of University Professors
• The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi
• The Powys Society (UK)

Courses

• ENGL 336: Nineteenth-Century Novels
• ENGL 342: The Modern Novel
• ENGL 447: Form and Theory of Fiction
• ENGL 301: Introduction to the English Major
• ENGL 480/ENGL 499: Virginia Woolf

Awards

• Profile in Faculty Teaching Excellence, filmed by the Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence (2018)
• VCU Humanities Research Center Residential Fellow (2016) 
• VCU Humanities Research Center Travel Grants (2017, 2016, 2014)
• NEH Seminar, “Narrative Theory: Rhetoric and Ethics in Fiction and Nonfiction" (2008)