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)