Areas of Research/Interest: Victorian fiction; Victorian prose; narrative and Science; narrative and epistemology; science and culture.

Select Publications:

Darwin Loves You: Natural Selection and the Re-enchantment of the World.  Princeton, Princeton UP.  2006.

Dying to Know: Scientific Epistemology and Narrative in Victorian England.  Chicago: U of Chicago P.  2002.

Darwin and the Novelists: Patterns of Science in Victorian Fiction.  Cambridge: Harvard UP. 1988.

The Realistic Imagination: English Fiction from Frankenstein to Lady Chatterley.  Chicago: U of Chicago P. 1981.

The Boundaries of Fiction. Princeton: Princeton UP. 1968.

Fellowships/Honors: National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship; Guggenheim Fellowship; Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship; Resident Fellowships at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, Bogliasco Foundation Liguria Center.