Education

• Ph.D. (English), University of Delaware
• M.A. (English), Western Illinois University
• B.A. (English), Elizabethtown College

Interests

• 18th and 19th Century British Literature
• Composition and Business Writing
• Intercultural Communication

Selected Publications

'All the World's a Stage': Dramatic Sensibility in Mary Shelley's Novels. New York: Routledge, 2002.

"Mathilda: Mary Shelley's Romantic Tragedy." Keats-Shelley Journal 46 (1997): 75-96.

"The Illusion of 'Great Expectations': Manners and Morals in Mary Shelley's Lodore and Falkner." In Iconoclastic Departures: Mary Shelley After Frankenstein. Eds. Syndy Conger, Frederick Frank, and Gregory O'Dea. Madison, NJ: Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 1997: 275-294.

"Breaking the Tie That Binds: Parents and Children in Romantic Fiction." In Family Matters in the British and American Novel. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1997: 31-54.