Dissertation: Chaste Rebellion: The Disobedient Daughter in Antebellum Literature (2005)

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.