Areas of Research/Interest: Victorian studies;visual culture

Select Publications:

With Avanthi Meduri, "Knowing the Dancer: East Meets West," Victorian Literature and Culture, 32, no. 2 (2004)
"Of Jews and Ships and Mob Attacks, Of Catholics and Kings: The Strange Career of Lord George Gordon." Dickens Studies Annual 32 (2002).
"The Other Arts: Victorian Visual Culture," Blackwell's Companion to the Victorian Novel. 2002.
"Of Gods and Dancing Girls: A Letter From 1802 Madras." The Wordsworth Circle 31, no. 3 (2000).
Dreams of an English Eden: Ruskin and His Tradition in Social Criticism. New York: Columbia University Press. 1984.

Affiliations: Northeast Victorian Studies Association, Modern Language Association.

Fellowships/Honors: National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow.