Areas of Specialty:

• Colonial to Nineteenth-Century American Writing
• The American Novel
• Postcolonial & Race Theory
• Narrative Theory

• Fugitive Empire: Locating Early American Imperialism. The University of Minnesota Press, Forthcoming 2005.
• “Reading and Writing Terror: The New York Conspiracy Trials of 1741.” American Literary History. Forthcoming August 2004.
• “‘Snug Stored Below’: The Politics of Race in James Fenimore Cooper’s The Pioneers.” Studies in American Fiction. Autumn 2001.