Publications
- Review
of Sarah Robbins, The Cambridge
Introduction to Harriet Beecher Stowe,
New
England Quarterly 81
(2008):369-372.
- “Dissent
and the Daughter in the Early Works of Catharine Maria
Sedgwick and Lydia Maria Child,” Legacy: A Journal of
American Women Writers 22 (2005): 107-125.
- Review
of Anne E. Boyd, Writing for
Immortality: Women Writers and the Emergence of High
Literary Culture in America, New England
Quarterly 78 (2005): 469-471.
- “William
Bradford,” The Encyclopedia of
New England (Yale UP, 2005).
- “‘Sweet
but Commanding’: The Disobedient Daughter in
Cooper’s The
Pioneers,” Cooper Society
Miscellaneous Papers 18 (2003): 8-12.
- “Abolition, Compromise, and ‘The Everlasting Elusiveness of Truth’ in Melville’s Pierre,” Studies in American Fiction 26 (1998): 3-28.
Conference Papers
- “Hawthorne's
Life of
PIerce and Tanglewood
Tales,” Nathaniel Hawthorne
Society Summer Meeting, Bowdoin, ME, May 2008.
- “The
Divine and Supernatural Light in the Captivity Narrative
of John Marrant,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century
Studies, Portland, OR, March 2008.
- “‘Wrestling in the
Shadows:' The Poetry of Henrietta Cordelia Ray and Rose
Terry Cooke,” Modern Language Association, Chicago, IL,
December 2007.
- “Banned
in Boston,” American Literature Association, Boston, MA,
May 2007. (Organized and chaired panel)
- “‘As a
Brand from the Burning’: Children, Warfare, and
Displacement in Hope
Leslie,” Society for the Study
of American Women Writers, Philadelphia, PA, November
2006.
- “‘Sweet
but Commanding’: The Disobedient Daughter in
Cooper’s The
Pioneers,” American Literature
Association, Cambridge, MA, May 2003.
- “‘Never
to Disobey God’: Authority, Rebellion, and the Antebellum
Convent Narrative,” Southwest/Texas Popular Cultural
Association, Albuquerque, NM, February 2003.
- “‘My Heart Yearns for England’: Anglophilia in Lydia Maria Child’s Hobomok,” British Association for American Studies, Staffordshire, England, May 2001.