Professional Statement
Specialties
Books
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Bad Form: Social Mistakes and the Nineteenth-Century Novel What--other than embarrassment--could one hope to gain from prolonged exposure to the social mistake? Why think much about what many would like simply to forget? Bad Form argues that whatever its awkwardness, the social mistake--the blunder, the gaffe, the faux pas-is a figure of critical importance to the nineteenth-century novel. With significant new readings of a number o.... | |
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Against Bosses, Against Oligarchies: A Conversation with Richard Rorty .... |
Selected Publications and Papers Delivered
Bad Form: Social Mistakes and the Nineteenth-Century Novel (Oxford University Press, 2008).
Against Oligarchies, Against Bosses: A Conversation with Richard Rorty, with Derek Nystrom (Charlottesville: Prickly Pear Pamphlets, 1998).
“Caucus-Racing,” Novel: A Forum on Fiction (forthcoming).
“Hardy’s 1900,” MLQ (forthcoming).
“Celia Johnson’s Face,” English Language Notes (49.2, Fall / Winter 2011).
"Before and Afterwardsness in Henry James," in Narrative Middles: Navigating the Nineteenth-Century Novel, edited by Caroline Levine and Mario Ortiz-Roblez (Ohio State University Press, 2011).
“Some Versions of Syllepsis,” Partial Answers (Volume 9, Number 1): 177-88.
"Make No Mistake: Getting it Right in The Princess Casamassima," Novel: A Forum on Fiction Novel (Volume 43, Number 1):60-64.
Review of Gwen Hyman’s Making a Man: Gentlemanly Appetites in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel in Victorian Studies (Volume 53, Number 2): 371-373.
Review of William Flesch’s Comeuppance: Costly Signaling, Altrusitic Punishment, and Other Biological Compnents of Fiction in Novel: A Forum on Fiction (Volume 43, Number 3): 501-505
"The Life and Death and Death of Colonel Blimp," Critical Inquiry, Vol. 35, No. 1. (2008), pp. 90-114.
Review of Kerry McSweeney’s What’s the Import?: Nineteenth-Century Poems and Contemporary Critical Practice in Victorian Studies, Vol. 51, No 1, (2008), pp. 192-94.
"Stupid Sensations: Henry James, Good Form, and Reading Middlemarch Without a Brain," The Henry James Review, Vol. 28, No. 3 (2007), pp. 292-298
"Narrative," The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature, ed. David Kastan (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005).
"Twentieth-Century Novel Theory," Blackwell Encyclopedia of the Novel (Oxford: Blackwell, 2009).
Current Research
I published a book on social mistakes (saying the wrong thing, wearing the wrong thing, eating peas with your knife, etc.) in the nineteenth-century novel. I'm at work at two other projects. The first is a critical and historical account of narrative theory. I am also at work on a book that looks at ways in which difficult arguments about war are embodied in the cinematic style of some British war films.
Recent English Courses Taught
Fall, 2012
| 45B/2 | Literature in English: Late 17th- Through Mid-19th Centuries |
Introductory Surveys British 18th-Century British 19th-Century American Literature |
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| 45B/201 -- discussion section |
Blevins, Jeffrey |
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| 45B/202 -- discussion section |
Ciacciarelli, Helen |
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| 45B/203 -- discussion section |
Fan, Christopher |
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| 45B/204 -- discussion section |
Kelly, Tyleen |
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| 250/1 | Research Seminars: Victorian Cultural Studies |
British 19th-Century British 20th- and 21st-Century Graduate Courses |
Spring, 2012
| 45B/1 | Literature in English: Late 17th- Through Mid-19th Centuries |
Introductory Surveys British 18th-Century British 19th-Century American Literature |
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| 45B/101 -- discussion section |
Dumont, Alex |
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| 45B/102 -- discussion section |
Ling, Jessica |
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| 45B/103 -- discussion section |
Taylor, Bradford Alden |
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| 45B/2 | Literature in English: Late 17th- Through Mid-19th Centuries |
Introductory Surveys British 18th-Century British 19th-Century American Literature |
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| 45B/201 -- discussion section |
Kolb, Margaret |
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| 45B/202 -- discussion section |
Mangin, Sarah |
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| 45B/203 -- discussion section |
Stephens, Charisse |
Summer, 2012
| N121/1 | The Romantic Period |
British 19th-Century |
Fall, 2011
| 250/2 | Research Seminar: Victorian Poetry |
Graduate Courses |
Spring, 2011
| 125B/1 | The English Novel: Dickens through Conrad |
British 19th-Century |
Summer, 2011
| N118/1 | Milton |