Research & Publications
Current Research
I am working on three book projects. Roomscapes: Gender and the Reading Room of the British Museum, 1857-1930 explores the vital importance of this circular space in Bloomsbury London to women writers and activists, from George Eliot and Eleanor Marx to Beatrice Potter Webb, Amy Levy, and Virginia Woolf. Victorian Vulgarity is a collection of essays, co-edited with Elise Michie, on figures of vulgarity in Victorian literature, aesthetics, and culture. I am also working on a book of creative nonfiction, Unlikely Loves. I have an ongoing fascination with maps and hope to write a heavily illustrated book about my map postcard collection, now approaching 2000 items. See my article "Geophilia’s Galaxy" for a sampling of my collection of cartographic objects.
Books
- Confessional Subjects: Revelations of Gender and Power in Victorian Literature and Culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.
- Reuben Sachs, by Amy Levy. A critical edtion with introduction, textual notes, and supplementary materials. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press (2006).
- The Romance of a Shop, by Amy Levy. A critical edtion with introduction, textual notes, and supplementary materials. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press (2006).
Selected Articles
- "Promiscuous Reading: The Problem of Identification and Anne Frank’s Diary," in Witnessing the Disaster: Essays on Representation and the Holocaust Eds. Michael Bernard-Donals and Richard Glejzer. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003. 141-161.
- "Geophilia’s Galaxy"(co-authored with Laurie Beth Clark) in special issue "On Maps and Mapping" of Performance Research, 6.2 (Summer 2001): 110-115.
- "Ape Anxiety: Sensation Fiction, Evolution, and the Genre Question," Journal of Victorian Culture, 6.2 (Fall 2001): 250-270.
- "Confessional Feminisms: Rhetorical Dimensions of First-Person Theorizing," Language and Liberation: Feminism, Philosophy, and Language. Editor Kelly Oliver. Albany: SUNY Press, 1999. 173-205.
- "Dirty Reading: Sensation Fiction, Women, and Primitivism [PDF]," Criticism 36.2 (Spring 1994): 213-241.
- "Confessing Feminist Theory: What's 'I' Got to Do with It?" Hypatia 7.2 (Spring 1992): 120-147.
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