Areas of Research/Interest: Victorian literature and culture; critical theory; history of the novel

Select Publications:

Ed.,  Factory Production in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2003) and author of The Ideas in Things: Realism, Fetishism, Fugitive Meaning (forthcoming).
Victorian Writing about Risk: Imagining a Safe England in a Dangerous World. Cambridge. 2000.

Affiliations: American Fellowship from the American Association of University Women, 2001.