Education

• Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park

Interests

• British Literature and Culture in the 18th-Century
• History of the Book/Print Culture Studies
• Postcolonial Fiction
• Genre Theory
• The "Novel"
• Fiction and Law
• Technology and Digital Culture
• The Institutional History of English as a Discipline

Selected Grants and Fellowships

• NEA Big Read Grant for Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried, 2013. Co-recipient with Kuhio Walters.
• Kluge Fellowship, The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC, 2005-2006.
• NEH Summer Stipend, 2005.
• Pantzer Fellowship, The Bibliographical Society of America, 2003.
• The Bibliographical Society (Great Britain), 2002-03.
• Gwin J. and Ruth Kolb Research Travel Fellowship, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2003.
• College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Support and Development Award, West Chester University, Fall 2002.
• Faculty Fellowship, Penn Humanities Forum ("The Book"), University of Pennsylvania, 2002-2003.
• New Faculty Development Grant, West Chester University, 2002-2003.
• Co-Authored Instructional Improvement Grants for Print Culture courses and Writing Across the Curriculum projects, 1998-2000. (Awarded by the Office of Undergraduate Studies, the Center for Teaching Excellence, and the College of Arts and Humanities at the University of Maryland, College Park.)

Selected Publications

The History of the Book in the West: A Library of Critical Essays (Vol. III, 1700-1800). Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate, 2010. (Editor, compiler, introducer.)

"The Center for the Book and the History of the Book." Libraries and the Cultural Record 45.1 (January 2010): 56-69. Co-authored with Eric Lindquist.

"Exploring Context and Canonicity: Lessons from the ECCO and EEBO Databases." The Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer 23.3 (Fall/Winter 2009): 4-13.

"The Warwick Lane Network and the Refashioning of 'Atalantis' as a Titular Keyword: Print and Politics in the Age of Queen Anne." Solicited chapter in Producing the Eighteenth-Century Book: Writers and Publishers in England, 1650-1800. Eds. Laura Runge and Pat Rogers. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 163-92.

Agent of Change: Print Culture Studies after Elizabeth L. Eisenstein. Amherst, MA & Washington, DC: University of Massachusetts Press and the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress, 2007. Co-edited with Sabrina Alcorn Baron and Eric N. Lindquist. Includes "A Conversation with Elizabeth L. Eisenstein" (Interview), by Baron, Lindquist, and Shevlin (409-420).

"The Titular Claims of Female Surnames in Eighteenth-Century Fiction." Solicited chapter in Women, Property, and the Letters of the Law, eds. Andrew Buck, Margaret Ferguson, and Nancy Wright. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004: 256-278.

"'To Reconcile Book and Title, and Make 'em Kin to One Another': The Evolution of the Title's Contractual Functions." Book History 2 (1999): 42-77.

"The Plots of Early English Novels: Narrative Mappings Rooted in Land and Law." Eighteenth-Century Fiction 11.4 (July 1999): 379-402.

"'Imaginary Productions' and 'Minute Contrivances': Law, Fiction, and Property in Eighteenth-Century England." Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 28 (1999): 131-154.

"The English Short Title Catalogue: Past, Present and Future: A Report on the January 21, 1998 Conference." The East-Central Intelligencer 12.1-2 (April 1998): 10-14.

"Cartographic Refrains and Postcolonial Terrains: Mariama Bâ's Scarlet Song." Modern Fiction Studies 43.4 (Winter 1997): 933-962.

"The Title As a Teaching Tool." SHARP News 6.2 (Spring 1997): 2-4.