Degrees

Books

Edited Works

Articles

• “Fielding and the City,” The Oxford Handbook to Henry Fielding, ed. Thomas Keymer and Henry Power (forthcoming, Oxford University Press, 2024)
• “‘PARE´NTHESIS. n. ſ.’: ‘the drama of Reason,’” in A History of Punctuation in English Literature 3 vols., ed. Elizabeth M. Bonapfel, Mark Faulkner, Jeffrey Gutierrez, John Lennard (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2024)
• “Of a Parenthesis,” in Milieus of Minutiae, ed. Christiane Frey and Elizabeth Brogden (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, forthcoming 2024)
• Introductory essay, “Reception,” The Oxford Handbook of English Prose, 1640-1714, ed. Henry Power and Nicholas McDowell (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2024)
• “Style and Language,” in Jonathan Swift in Context, ed. Pat Rogers and Joseph Hone (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024), 116-22
• “Editions,” in Daniel Defoe in Context, ed. Albert Rivero and George Justice (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023), 34-43
• “Defoe and Drama,” in The Oxford Handbook to Daniel Defoe, ed. Nicholas Seager and J. Alan Downie (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023), 69-90
• “Gothic Syntax,” in Small Things in the Eighteenth Century: The Political and Personal Value of the Miniature, ed. Chloe Wigston Smith and Beth Tobin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022 ), 47-63
• “SEL’s Recent Studies in the Restoration and Eighteenth Century; or, Our Scholarly Future,” Special Issue, “Eighteenth-Century Studies and the Future of the Profession,” ed. Jonathan Sachs, The Rambling, ed. Sarah Tindall Kareem and Crystal Lake (https://the-rambling.com/), July 2020
• “Fielding’s Prepositional, Textual Inns,” in “Getting Perspective,” ed. Julie Park, Word & Image 37:3 (Winter 2021): 245-258 https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/twim20/37/3?nav=tocList.
• Introductory essay, “The Meaning of Home,” The Cultural History of the Home, ed. Amanda Flather (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020), 13-34
• “Recent Studies in the Restoration and Eighteenth Century,” Studies in English Literature 58:3 (Summer 2018): 731-804
• “Bunyan and the Early Novel,” Oxford Handbook to John Bunyan, ed. Michael Davies (Oxford University Press, July 2018), 521-36
• “Allegorical Punctuation,” English Without Boundaries: Reading English from China to Canada, ed. Jane Roberts and Trudi L. Darby (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017): 230-41
•  “Exploration, Expansion, and the Early Novel,” Oxford History of the Novel in English, vol. 1, ed. Thomas Keymer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), 450-70
• “Description in Action,” Public Books (November 2016) http://www.publicbooks.org/fiction/virtual-roundtable-on-description-in-the-novel
• “Travel Narratives and the Early Novel,” Oxford Handbook of the Eighteenth-Century Novel, ed. J. A. Downie (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), 121-36; Oxford Handbooks Online, September 2013 (DOI:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199566747.013.006)
• “‘The little words’: The Close Reading of Really Small Things,” The Wordsworth Circle, Special Edition in Honor of Robert Langbaum, 47:2 (Spring 2016): 114-118
• “Poems on the Stage,” Oxford Handbook of British Poetry, 1660-1800, ed. Jack Lynch (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016): 23-39
• “London,” Blackwell Companion to the English Novel, ed. Stephen Arata, J. Paul Hunter, and Jennifer Wicke (Oxford: Blackwell, 2015), 341-59
• “Approaching the Interior of the Eighteenth-Century English Country House,” Style 48:4 (Winter 2014), 543-562
• “John Bunyan and the Spaces of Religious Writing,” A Companion to British Literature, ed. Robert DeMaria, Heesok Chang, and Samantha Zacher (Oxford: Blackwell, 2014), 2:342-358
• “Daniel Defoe: Journalism, Myth, and Verisimilitude,” The Cambridge Companion to the European Novel, ed. Michael Bell (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), 36-53
• “The Impress of the Invisible: Lodges and Cottages,” English Literary History 79 (Winter 2012), 989-1012
• “Description, Including Ekphrasis,” The Blackwell Encyclopedia of the Novel, ed. Efrain Kristal (Oxford: Blackwell, 2012)
• “London and Narration in the Long Eighteenth Century,” The Cambridge Companion to London, ed. Lawrence Manley (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 102-118
• “London,” Johnson in Context, ed. Jack Lynch (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 243-250
• “The Business of Houses: The Problem of Old London Bridge,” The Eighteenth-Century Novel: Essays in Honor of John Richetti, ed. Albert J. Rivero and George Justic, vol. 6-7 (August 2009), 261-305
• “Defoe and London,” The Cambridge Companion to Daniel Defoe, ed. John J. Richetti (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), 158-181
• “‘Chasms in the Story’:  Sophia Lee’s The Recess and David Hume’s History of England,” in Imagining Selves: Essays in Honor of Patricia Meyer Spacks, ed. Rivka Swensen and Elise Lauterbach (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2008), 21-40
• “Poetic Spaces,” The Cambridge Companion to Alexander Pope, ed. Pat Rogers (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), 49-62
• “The Castle of Otranto: A Shakespeareo-Political Satire?” in Historical Boundaries, Narrative Forms: Essays on British Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century in Honor of Everett Zimmerman, ed. Lorna Clymer and Robert Mayer (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2007), 184-198
• “Teaching Space in Sir Charles Grandison,” MLA Approaches to Teaching Samuel Richardson, ed. Jocelyn Harris and Lisa Zunshine (2006), 162-68
• “A Geography of Georgian Narrative Space,” Georgian Geographies, ed. Miles Ogborn and Charles Withers (Forthcoming, Manchester University Press, 2002), 114-30
• “‘Over-against Catharine-Street in the Strand’”: Forms of Address in London Streets," The Streets of London, ed. Tim Hitchcock (forthcoming, London: Rivers Oram, 2002), 10-26
• “The Spaces of Clarissa in Text and Film,” Eighteenth Century Fiction on Screen, ed. Robert Mayer (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), 106-22
• “The Rhetoric of Description,” Eighteenth-Century Genres and Cultures, ed. Dennis Todd and Cynthia Wall (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2001), 261-79
• “Details of Space: Narrative Description in Early Eighteenth-Century Novels,” Eighteenth-Century Fiction 10, no. 4 (July 1998), 387-405
• “Novel Streets: The Rebuilding of London and Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year,” Studies in the Novel 30, no. 2 (Summer 1998), 164-177
• “Grammars of Space: The Language of London from Stow’s Survey to Defoe's Tour,” Philological Quarterly 76, no. 4 (Fall 1997), 387-411
• “The English Auction: Narratives of Dismantlings,” Eighteenth-Century Studies 31, no. 1 (Fall 1997), 1-25
• “Gendering Rooms: Domestic Architecture and Literary Acts,” Eighteenth-Century Fiction 5, no.4 (July 1993), 349-72
• “‘Her Conversation heavenly’: Defoe's Architectural Dialogues and the Academy for Women,” in Compendious Conversations, ed. Kevin Cope Lang (New York: Peter Lang, 1992), 237-238

Honors

• Robert Lowry Patten Award for Best Contribution to Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Studies for Grammars of Approach, 2020
• Shortlisted for Kenshur Prize for Best Book in Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2020
• NEH Fellowship, The Newberry Library, 2016
• Lewis Walpole Library Fellowship, May 2014
• Newberry Library/ ASECS Fellowship, January 2014
• Elected to The Athenaeum Club, London, June 2009
• Honorable Mention, James Russell Lowell Prize, for The Prose of Things, Modern Language Association 2007.
• NEH Fellowship, 2003-2004
• University of Virginia sesquicentennial, 2003-2004
• Newberry Library/ASECS Fellowship, May 2001
• American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 1998-1999
• University of Virginia Sesquicentennial Fellowship, 1998-1999
• Newberry Library/British Academy Fellowship, Summer 1997
• NEH Summer Stipend, 1994
• Huntington Library visiting fellowship, 1994
• William Andrews Clark Library visiting fellowship, 1994
• Houghton Library visiting fellowship, 1994
• NEH Summer Seminar, 1993
• Marc Perry Galler Prize for Best Dissertation, University of Chicago, 1993
• Newberry Library research fellowship, 1991-1992