INTRODUCTION
Fall 2025 Office Hours: Mon/Wed 1:00PM-2:00PM (Office/Online: Zoom/Teams); Fri 2:00PM-3:00PM (Office/Online: Zoom/Teams); and by appointment.
My teaching and research interests include writing and research, Nineteenth-Century/Victorian Studies, and the English Novel; I have published on literary and historical topics relating to Charles Dickens, the Brontës, Black literary history in the 1800s, and digital humanities.
In undergraduate composition classes like ENG 1001G and ENG 1002G I work with students to improve their writing skills, focusing on essay structure and citation style. Special attention is paid to finding and evaluating sources online, including opinion pieces, journalism, public records, and peer-reviewed articles; we also discuss the history and development of academic writing. We practice internet and database search techniques, which are useful for all 宅男研究所 students in any major, including arts and humanities, tech, STEM, and other fields, and learn the basics of using digital collections and library resources, especially at 宅男研究所’s Booth Library.
In Fall 2025, I will be teaching a graduate course on 1800s travel writing created by a diverse range of authors from around the world who chronicled impressions of the countries they toured. Students will access and study these writings, using databases and published scholarship to research and evaluate them to understand the cultural meaning and themes they may contain.
Besides teaching and collaborating with students, I also do a lot of researching and writing. A recent scholarly edition, The Verse of Charles Dickens (Edinburgh University Press, 2025), unites and annotates all of Dickens’s known poetic output from global libraries and digital archives (some of the worst verse I’ve ever read!) and corrects the record on fake attributions. Additionally, I have published chapters in The Theological Dickens (2021), Dickens and Women Reobserved (2020), and Critical Insights: Joseph Conrad (2016), and articles in Brontë Studies, Dickens Quarterly, Dickens Studies Annual, The Dickensian, Victorian Popular Fictions Journal, Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature, and Text & Presentation.
Another regular part of my writing schedule involves reviewing submissions and academic books for various peer-reviewed journals, which is a great way not only to share knowledge and insight but also to learn about new discoveries. As a scholar I am constantly learning from and collaborating with others through academic processes, personal interactions, and quite a bit of annual reading!
Though I am hard at work on a few book projects, I also have some “forthcoming” publications. As the culmination of a six-year project, a chapter on the life of Chicago novelist Sarah E. Farro will appear in the Routledge Companion to Global Victorian Literature and Culture edited by Fariha Shaikh and Sukanya Banerjee (Routledge, 2025). Other chapters and articles are forthcoming in the Dickensian, Digital Dickens (White Rose Press, 2025), Handbook of Corpus Linguistics (Bloomsbury, 2025), and Critical Insights: Wuthering Heights (Salem Press, 2026).
Professional Affiliations
The Dickens Society, The Dickens Fellowship, The Brontë Society, NAVSA
Academic Positions
Associate Editor of ; Associate Editor of
Education & Training
- Loyola University Chicago, PhD in English (2021)
- Loyola University Chicago, MA in English (2016)
- University of Georgia, BA in English and History (2011)
Publications
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. Co-edited by Lydia Craig and Emily Middleton. Edinburgh University Press, 2025.
Brontë Studies, vol. 43, no. 1, February 2023, pp. 1-13. https:/doi.org/10.1080/14748932.2022.2148838.
Dickens Quarterly, vol. 39, no. 3, September 2022, pp. 310-335. (Honorable Mention – The Paroissien Prize, 2023). DOI: 10.1353/dqt.2022.0026.
Victorian Popular Fictions Journal, vol. 4, iss. 1, July 2022, pp. 78-93. DOI: 10.46911/SHAI3722.
Dickens Studies Annual, vol. 53, no. 1, March 2022, pp. 70-87. DOI: 10.5325/dickstudannu.53.1,00070.
In The Theological Dickens. Edited by Brenda A. Ayres and Sarah E. Maier. Routledge, 2021, pp. 110-127.
Dickens Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 3, September 2020, pp. 249-263. DOI: 10.1353/dqt.2020.0033.
Dickens and Women Re-observed. Edited by Edward Guiliano. Edward Everett Root Publishers Co. Ltd, 2020, pp. 267-287.
.” Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature, no. 134, December 2018, pp. 234-249. DOI: 10.1353/vct.2018.0021.
Dickens Quarterly, vol. 35, no. 2, 2018, pp. 149-158. DOI: 10.1353/dqt.2018.0014.
JMMLA, vol. 50, no. 2, Fall 2017, pp. 11-29. DOI: 10.1353/mml.2017.0013.
Conrad: Critical Insights. Edited by Jeremiah Garsha. Salem Press, 2016, pp. 69-83. ISBN: 978-1-68217-114-1.
Edited by Graley Herren. Text & Presentation. McFarland, 2015, pp. 42-56. ISBN: 9781476624730.
Frequently Taught Courses
- ENG 1001G (College Composition I: Critical Reading & Source-Based Writing)
- ENG 1002G (College Composition II: Argument & Critical Inquiry)