Areas of Interest

Current Projects and Publications

“Spectacle and Subversion in the Ccmedies of Aphra Behn.” Early Modern Center Panel, May 2006.

“An Embarrassing Success: Aphra Behn’s The Emperor of the Moon and Spectacular Entertainment,” American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Meeting, presented March 2005

“Staging Spectacle: Aphra Behn and the Restoration Theatre,” Consortium of Literature, Theory, and Culture Roundtable, November 2004

“Restoring the London Stage and Aphra Behn’s The Rover,” Plenary Lecture to ENG 102 (British and American Literature, 1650-1789), October, 2004

Respondent to guest speakers Srinivas Aravamudan and Paul Stevens, Home and World Colloquium, University of California, Santa Barbara, November 2003

“Horace Walpole and the Creation of Strawberry Hill,” Plenary Lecture to ENG 102 (British and American Literature, 1650-1789), February, 2001

Fellowships, Grants and Awards

UC Graduate Research Mentorship Grant, 2005-2006
UC Santa Barbara Graduate Division Research Grant, 2005
UC Consortium for Literature, Theory and Culture Travel Grant, 2005
Rocky Mountain MLA Huntington Library Fellowship, 2005
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, 2005
UC Santa Barbara TA Instructional Improvement Grant, “Creating On-Line Writing II Resources for Undergraduates and Instructors,” 2004-5
UC Santa Barbara Fee Remission Fellowship, 2001-2003
UC Santa Barbara Department of English Fellowship, 2001-2002
Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship, University of York, 1999-2000
McLaughlin Scholar, University of Florida, 1997 and 1998
Michael Hauptman Gold Medal in Humanities, University of Florida, 1999
Eta Sigma Phi (Classics Honorary Society) Gold Coin Award, University of Florida, 1999
High Distinction Anderson Scholar, University of Florida, 1999
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Senior Hall of Fame, University of Florida, 1999

Teaching Experience

Teaching Associate, UC Santa Barbara
English 102: English and American Literature from 1650 to 1789: Theme: Dialogues between the Sexes (Summer 2003)

English 102: English and American Literature from 1650 to 1789: Theme: Home and World (Summer 2004)

Writing II: Introduction to Compositon (Summer 2006)

Teaching Assistant, UC Santa Barbara
English and American Literature from 1650 to 1789, Professor Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook (Winter 2002, Fall 2004)
Early Shakespeare, Professor Patricia Fumerton, (Fall 2002)
Irish Literature, Professor Enda Duffy (Winter 2003)
Modern British Literature, Professor Enda Duffy (Spring 2003)

Instructor, Writing Program, UC Santa Barbara
Writing II (Fall 2003, Winter and Spring 2004, Winter 2005, Spring 2006)