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Kean University

Education

  • Ph.D., English, The University of Virginia (2006)
  • M.A., English, The University of Texas at Austin (1992)
  • B.A. (with Honors), English, The University of Texas at Austin (1989)

Areas of Expertise

  • 19th-20th Century British and European Literature
  • World Literature 

Courses Taught

  • World Literature
  • British Literature
  • The Short Story
  • Critical Approaches to Literature
  • Senior English Seminar
  • Detective Fiction
  • Victorian Literature
  • New Literary Fiction in English

Selected Publications

 “Lilied Tongues and Yellow Claws: The Invention of London’s Chinatown.” In Challenging Modernism: New Readings in Literature and Culture, 1914-45, edited by Stella Deen. Ashgate, 2002.
 

Teaching Philosophy

"How do you know but every Bird that cuts the airy way, is an immense world of delight, closed by your senses five?" (William Blake, 1790)