"'Please, Sir, We Wanted More': Re-Visioning Dickens World" (Rebecca Mitchell, co-author. Under review)
"Theatre" in Sally Ledger (ed.), Dickens in Context, Cambridge UP (Forthcoming)
"It Was the Worst of Times, It Was the Worst of Times," with Rebecca Mitchell (Invited review, forthcoming in Victorian Literature and Culture 38.1 [Fall 2010])
"Insurrection and Integration: The Indian 'Mutiny' of 1857 and the Theatrical Renegotiation of Ethnic Alterities," in Gilles Teuile, ed. "Victorian Representations of War," special issue of Cahiers Victoriens et Eduoardiens 66 ( Nov. 2007): 391-414
"Flirting with Disaster: Sexual Play in the Victorian Periodical," Victorian Periodicals Review 87.3 (Fall 2004): 273-88 (Winner of the VanArsdel Prize)
“‘Rational, National Show!’: The Theatrical Career of the Great Exhibition,” Victorian Review 29.2 (Winter 2003): 19-39
Work in Progress
Imperial Theatrics: Nineteenth-Century Theatre and Empire (manuscript under review)
Presentations
Panel Moderator, "Adapting Dickens," MLA Annual Convention, Los Angeles, CA, Jan. 2010
Seminar Co-Leader (with Rebecca Mitchell, U of Texas-Pan American, and Crisi Benford, Duke U), "Nineteenth-Century Afterlives," American Comparative Literature Association, New Orleans, LA, Apr. 2010
"Imperial Theatrics," Humanities Institute, University of South Florida, Oct. 2009 (Invited)
"Copperfield, the Stage Sensation," Dickens Universe (Santa Cruz, CA) August 2009 (Invited)
"Victorian Pachydrama: Elephants and the Performance of Empire," Centre for Victorian Studies, School of Arts, Languages, and Literatures (Exeter, England) April 2009
"Jane Eyre, Revisioned," British Women Writers Conference (Iowa City, IA) April 2009
"Narrative Spaces and the Literary Theme Park: The Case of Dickens World," American Comparative Literature Association (Cambridge, MA) March 2009
"Around the World in 80 Plays: Drama and Empire in the Nineteenth Century," Midwest Victorian Studies Association (Chicago, IL) April 2005
"Staging the Mutiny; Performing the Nation," Midwest MLA Annual Convention (St. Louis, MO) November 2004
Panel presentation on travel grants and research fellowships, Midwestern Modern Language Association Annual Convention (Chicago, IL) November 2003 (invited)
"Imperial Theatrics: Spectacle and Empire in the Nineteenth Century," Victorians Institute Conference (Bowling Green, KY) 2003
"Imperial Theatrics: Spectacle and Empire in the Nineteenth Century," Dickens Universe (Santa Cruz, CA) August 2003 (invited)
"'Rational, national show!': The Theatrical Career of the Great Exhibition," Midwest Victorian Studies Association (Chicago, IL) April 2003
"A Novel Victory: British Language and Literature as Tools of Imperial Conquest in Victorian Drama," South Central MLA (Austin, TX) 2002
"Flirting with Disaster: Sexual Play in the Victorian Periodical," Dickens Project Winter Conference (University of California at Riverside) February 2002
Cruise Director (Social Activities
Coordinator), The Dickens Universe, University of California at Santa
Cruz, July 2003
Graduate discussion leader and conference
participant, The Dickens Universe, University of California at Santa
Cruz, July 2001 and July 2002
Departmental and University Service
Student Grievance Committee, Department of English, University of South Florida, 2009-10
Internal Faculty Awards Reviw Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, University of South Florida, Spring 2009Chair, Graduate Placement Committee, Department of English, University of South Florida, 2008-10
Literature Curriculum Committee, Department of English, University of South Florida, 2006-9
Website Redesign, Department of English, University of South Florida, 2006-2009Job Search Committee, Department of English, University of South Florida, 2006-7
Internal Faculty Awards Reviw Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, University of South Florida, Fall 2006-Fall 2007Invited speaker, “Success in Today’s Classroom,” an orientation seminar for First-Year students (University of Iowa), Jul. 2004AGSE (University of Iowa Association of Graduate Students in
English) forum on conference presentations, Nov. 2002
Panel discussion of comprehensive exams
for Introduction to Graduate Studies Class (Department of English, University of Iowa), Sept. 2002
University of Iowa Department of English Graduate Admissions Review Committee, Jan.
2002
Panel discussion of comprehensive exams
for Introduction to Graduate Studies Class (Department of English, University of Iowa), Nov. 2001
Panel discussion of candidacy procedures
for University of Iowa Association of Graduate Students in English, Oct. 2001
Panel discussion of the graduate admissions
process for undergraduate majors (Department of English, University of Iowa), Feb. 1999