Areas of Expertise
- French language, literature and culture (all levels), 19th-century France (especially Paris, 1830-1870), France under German occupation, contemporary/multicultural France, Francophone literature (especially African and Caribbean), utopias and dystopias, 19th-century European narrative, the Brontës, Newport in the Gilded Age, creative writing
Education
- B.A. in comparative literature, University of California, Santa Barbara (1983)
- M.A. in comparative literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1985)
- Ph.D. in comparative literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1990)
Selected Publications
"Oblivion: The Lost Diaries of Branwell Brontë." Valley Press (UK), 2022. Paperback edition, 2025.
Editor, with Jeannene Przyblyski, "Making the News: Modernity and the Mass Press in Nineteenth-Century France." Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999.
Editor, with Stirling Haig, "Approaches to Teaching Stendhal’s The Red and the Black." New York: MLA, 1999.