Degrees

Research

Books

• Extreme Domesticity: A View from the Margins, Columbia UP, 2017
• Cool Men and the Second Sex, Columbia UP, 2003
• Unbecoming Women: British Women Writers and the Novel of Development, Columbia UP, 1993

Edited Works

• In the Mood: Special Issue of New Literary History  43.3 (Summer 2012).  Co-edited with Rita Felski.
• Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice: Copia Annotated E-Reader.  New York: Copia Editions, 2011.
• Jane Austen, Northranger Abbey: Norton Critical Edition.  New York: Norton, 2004.

Articles and Reviews

• "Memory Work and Dirty Work: Writing the Labor of Eldercare," New Literary History (forthcoming).
• “Realism’s Gender Wars: The Masculinity Effect in Late Realist Fiction and Reality TV.” American Literary History 34.4 (Winter 2022).
• "Passion. Mess. Genius. Mother," Public Books, August 16, 2022.
• “HGTV’s House Hunters and the Right to Coziness,” Canadian Theatre Review, Vol. 191 (Summer 2022).
• "Bathroom Realism and the Women of Cable TV." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 47.3 (Spring 2022): 589-611.
• “Nomadland Swerves from the Manly Road Movie,” Public Books, November 19, 2021.
• Review of Victoria Rosner, Machines for Living: Modernism and Domestic Life. In Modern Fiction Studies 67.3 (Fall 2021).
• "Occupying Domesticity: Reproductive Labor in Zuccotti Park." Public Space/Contested Space. Ed. Kevin D. Murphy and Sally O’Driscoll. New York: Routledge, 2021.
• “Jane Austen on the Global Stage.”  A Companion to World Literature, Volume IV.   Ed. Ken Seigneurie.  New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2020.
• “Everyday Domestic Life: Two Feminist Perspectives.” The Handbook of Contemporary Feminism.  Ed. Andrea Press and Tasha Oren.  New York: Routledge, 2019.
• "Home." Encyclopedia of Intimate Relationships and Families. Ed. James J. Ponzetti. New York: Macmillan, 2019.
• Review of Maria DiBattista & Deborah Epstein Nord, At Home in the World: Women Writers and Public Life, from Austen to the Present. In ALH Online, Series XIII (winter 2017).
• Review of Sara Ahmed, Living a Feminist Life. In Critical Inquiry (July 2017).
• “Gendered Narratives in Animal Studies.”  Narrative Theory Unbound: Queer and Feminist Interventions.  Ed. Robyn Warhol and Susan Lanser.  Columbus: Ohio State UP (2015): 293-311.
• “Pussy Panic versus Liking Animals: Tracking Gender in Animal Studies.”  Critical Inquiry 39.1 (Autumn 2012): 89-115.
• “Introduction,” with Rita Felski.  In the Mood: Special Issue of New Literary History 43.3 (Summer 2012): v-xii.
• “The Domestic Novel.” The Oxford History of the Novel in English, Volume 3: 1820-1880.  Ed. John Kucich and Jenny Bourne Taylor.  New York: Oxford, 2012.  169-84.
• “Domesticity Beyond Sentiment: Edith Wharton, Decoration, and Divorce.” American Literature 83.3 (Sept. 2011): 479-507.
• “Bad Girls of Good Housekeeping: Dominique Browning and Martha Stewart.” American Literary History 23.2 (Summer 2011): 260-282.
• “My Professor, Myself.”  Review of Terry Castle, The Professor and Other Writings. In GLQ 17.4 (2011).
• “Joe Wright’s Liberation of Elizabeth Bennet.” Persuasions On-Line (December 2010).
• “’Women as the Sponsoring Category’: A Forum on Academic Feminism and British Women’s Writing” (with Ann Cvetkovich and Susan Stanford Friedman). Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas 8.2 (June 2010): 235-54.
• “After Gilbert and Gubar: Madwomen Inspired by Madwoman.” Gilbert and Gubar’s The Madwoman in the Attic After Thirty Years. Ed. Annette R. Federico. Columbia, MO: U of Missouri P, 2009
• "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens--With Help from a New Digital Resource for Literary Scholars." Modern Philology (August 2008).
• “The Mixed News for Women in Academe: Feminization, Privatization, and the New Women’s Studies.” Special issue of South Atlantic Review. Ed. Barbara Ladd (Fall 2008).
• “Shelter Writing: Desperate Housewives from Crusoe to Queer Eye.” New Literary History 37.2 (2006).
• Review of Bill Brown, ed. Things and Suzanne Juhasz, A Desire for Women: Relational Psychoanalysis, Writing, and Relationships Between Women. In American Literature 77.1 (2005.)
• Review of Sarah Brown, Devoted Sisters: Representations of the Sister Relationship in Nineteenth-Century British and American Literature. In Victorian Studies 48.1 (2005).
• Review of George Butte, I Know That You Know That I Know: Narrating Subjects from Moll Flanders to Marnie. In Eighteenth-Century Fiction 17.2 (2005).
• “Dark Austen.” Re-Drawing Austen: Picturesque Travels in Austenland. Ed. Beatrice Battaglia and Diego Saglia (Naples: Liguori, 2004).
• “Response to Carolyn G. Heilbrun’s ‘From Rereading to Reading.’” PMLA 119.2 (2004).
• “Cuban Entries.” Callaloo 26.1 (2003).
• “Andrew Ross, Cultural Studies, and Feminism.” the minnesota review 52-54 (2001).
• “Feminism Today: Mothers, Daughters, Emerging Sisters." American Literary History 11.3 (Fall 1999).
• “Rachel Crothers.” American National Biography. Ed. John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes. Oxford University Press, 1999
• "Getting Waylaid in Evelina.” Norton Critical Edition of Evelina. Ed. Stewart J. Cooke. Norton, 1998
• “’Diversity’ in Adversity: The Retreat from Affirmative Action.” NWSA Journal 9.1 (Spring 1997).
• “Jane Austen and Edward Said: Gender, Culture, and Imperialism.” Critical Inquiry 21.4 (summer 1995).
• “Jane Eyre’s Fall from Grace.” Jane Eyre: Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism. Ed. Beth Newman. St. Martin’s, 1995.
• Review of Catharine MacKinnon, Only Words. In American Quarterly 47.4 (December 1995).
• Review of Amanda Anderson, Tainted Souls and Painted Faces: The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture. In Discourse 17.2 (Winter 1994-1995).
• “Geometries of Race and Gender: Eve Sedgwick, Spike Lee, Charlayne Hunter-Gault.” Feminist Studies 20.1 (Spring 1994).
• Review of Janet Gezari, Charlotte Bronte and Defensive Conduct and Carol Bock, Charlotte Bronte and the Storyteller’s Audience. In Victorian Studies 37.2 (Winter 1994).
• “The Mill on the Floss, the Critics, and the Bildungsroman.” PMLA 108 (1993).
• Review of Elaine Showalter, Sexual Anarchy and Ann Ardis, New Women, New Novels. In Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 21. 1 (Spring 1993).
• “Crashing the Party: Women and the Academy Now.” Wild Orchids and Trotsky: Messages from American Universities. Ed. Mark Edmundson. Viking, 1993.
• “Peevish Accents in the Juvenilia: A Feminist Key to Pride and Prejudice.” Approaches to Teaching Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Ed. Marcia Folsom. MLA, 1993.
• “The Humiliation of Elizabeth Bennet.” Refiguring the Father. Ed. Patricia Yaeger and Beth Kowaleski-Wallace. Southern Illinois University Press, 1989.

Selected Service and Honors

• Associate Editor, New Literary History: A Journal of Theory and Interpretation.
• Advisory Editor, Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts & Letters, 2003-2014
• Executive Council of the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature, 2000-2004
• Sesquicentennial Fellow, UVa Center for Advanced Studies, 2021-2022 , 2015-2016, 2009-2010, 2000-2001, 1996-1997
• Florence Howe Award for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship (Modern Language Association), 1993
• Fulbright Fellow, 1978-1979