Books and editions:

The Female Spectator by Eliza Haywood, 2 vols. (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2001) [ed. with Alexander Pettit].

Jane Barker, Exile: A Literary Career 1675-1725 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000).

The Poems of Jane Barker: The Magdalen Manuscript (Magdalen College Occasional Paper No. 3.  Oxford: Magdalen College, 1998).

 

Recent Articles:        

“Patriot or Opportunist? Eliza Haywood and the Politics of The Female Spectator,” in The Fair Philosopher: Eliza Haywood and The Female Spectator, ed. Don Newman and Lynn Wright (Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2006), 104-121.

“Constructions of the Feminine,” in A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry, ed. Christine Gerrard

(Oxford: Blackwell, 2006), 431-443.       

“New Contexts for Early Novels by Women: The Case of Eliza Haywood, Aaron Hill, and the Hillarians,

1719-1725,” in A Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel, ed. Paula Backscheider and Catherine Ingrassia (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005), 519-45.

“Effeminate Pacifists and War-Mongering Women: Thoughts on War and Peace in the Long Eighteenth

 Century,” 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era 9 (2003): 3-21.

“Political Verse and Satire: Monarchy, Party and Female Political Agency,” in Women and Poetry, 1660-

1750, ed. Sarah Prescott and David E. Shuttleton (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), 203-22.

 

Honors and Awards:

American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 2006.

Franklin Research Grant from the American Philosophical Society, 2006.

University Scholar, University of Montevallo, 2000-1, 1993-4.

National Endowment for the Humanities/Newberry Library Fellowship, 1994-95.

James M. Osborn Fellowship in English Literature and History, Beinecke Library of Yale University, 1994.

In addition I have held American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies fellowships at the Newberry and Folger Libraries and have participated in an NEH Summer Seminar directed by Paula Backscheider.