Areas of Specialty:

• Early American Literature and Culture
• 19th-century American Women Writers
• American Sentimentalism
• Narratives of the Disenfranchised in American Culture to 1865
  

• Prodigal Daughters: Susanna Rowson’s Early American Women, from the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, University of North Carolina Press.
• Editor, Susanna Rowson’s Charlotte Temple: A Norton Critical Edition, forthcoming fall 2009.
• Articles and reviews in the William & Mary Quarterly, Early American Literature, Novel, The New England Quarterly, Modern Philology, The Journal of American History, and several essay collections.