Archive

More books:

The Hummingbird Cabinet: A Rare and Curious History of Romantic Collectors (Cornell, 2006)

Mary Robinson: Selected Poems (Broadview, 1999)

Romantic Theatricality: Gender, Poetry, and Spectatorship (Cornell, 1997)

Essays:

“Keats’s Quarantine Bubble,” The Keats Letter Project (1 November 2020).

“Fanny Keats, Letter Keeper,” The Keats Letter Project (14 February 2020). The Keats Letter Project.

“Caroline Heilbrun Told You So,” Public Books (7 September 2018).

“Happy Birthday to Emily Brontë, A Very Nasty Woman” The Rambling (16 July 2018)

“Collect-Me-Nots,” New York Times, 17 May 2007.
Retitled web version: “Meanwhile: The Pathos of Napoleon’s Penis”

“Tiny Tomes,” The American Scholar 75 (Summer 2006): 133-38.

“Before I Read Clarissa I Was Nobody: Aspirational Reading and Richardson’s Great Novel,” The Hudson Review 56 (Summer 2003): 239-53.

“What to Expect When You’re Expecting,” Profession (1994): 70-74. 

Miscellany:

Anna Williams, My Gothic Dissertation. I co-directed Dr. Anna Williams’s podcast dissertation, in which she discusses both Gothic novels and the Gothic aspects of graduate school education.

Equity at Iowa: A collaborative project in the University of Iowa libraries. Metadata Librarian Wendy Robertson and I paired salary data with historic photos to highlight equity issues in academe. 

My “beautifully written” but “disappointing and underdeveloped” graduate school paper on Clarissa, “Anna Howe in absentia”