Education
PhD, University of Washington, Comparative Literature
Research interests
19th - 21st century American literature; political, social, and critical theory. Her research focuses on the intersections of narrative fiction, culture, and sociopolitical history.
Co-editor of the online journal Post45 Peer Reviewed, 2010-2015; 2020-2023.
Appointments and awards
Postdoctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University (1998-2000)
SSHRC Recipient (2005-2008)
Visiting Associate Professor, California Institute of Technology (2007-2008)
Books
The Aesthetics and Politics of the Crowd in American Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2003)
Articles
"Odds on Erasure: The Status of the Novel on the Receding Horizon of Democracy," American Literary History 35.1 (2023)
"When Psychoanalysis Was in Vogue," in American Literature in Transition 1950-1960, ed Steven Belletto (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
"The Idea of Happiness: Back to the Postwar Future," in Postmodern/Postwar--And After ed. Daniel Worden, Jason Gladstone, and Andrew Hoberek (University of Iowa Press, 2016).
"Robinson's Crusoe:
Housekeeping and Economic Form,"
Contemporary Literature 55 (2014).
“Queer Consumerism, Straight Happiness: Highsmith’s ‘Right Economy,’”
Post45 Peer Reviewed (December, 2012).
“Postwar Pastoral: The Art of Happiness in Philip Roth,” in
American Literature’s Aesthetic Dimensions, ed. Chris Looby & Cindy Weinstein (Columbia University Press, 2012).
“Shadow Economies: The Distribution of Wealth in and around
Pudd’nhead Wilson,”
ELH 78 (2011).
“Nature’s Naturalism,”
American Literary History 20 (2008).
“Cosmopolis,” in
A Concise Companion to American Fiction 1900-1950, ed. Peter Stoneley and Cindy Weinstein (Blackwell 2008).
"Shipwreck and Autonomy: Rawls, Riesman, and Oppen in the 1960s,"
Yale Journal of Criticism 18 (2005).
"Anerotic Excursions: Memory, Celibacy, and Desire in
The American Scene," in
Questioning the Master: Examinations of Sexual Ideology in the Writings of Henry James, ed. Peggy McCormack (U of Delaware P, 2000).
"Nella Larsen's 'Moving Mosaic': Harlem, Crowds, and Anonymity,"
American Literary History 9 (1997).
