Areas of Research/Interest: Victorian Literature and Culture, Economic history of Great Britain and History of Financial Institutions

Select Publications:
A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1998.
Making a Social Body: British Cultural Formation, 1830-1864. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1995.
Uneven Developments: The Ideological Work of Gender in Mid-Victorian England. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1989.
The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer: Ideology as Style in the Works of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, and Jane Austen. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1984.
Genres of the Credit Economy: Mediating Value in  Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Britain.  University of Chicago 
Press, 2008

Affiliations: Editorial Advisory Board, Feminist Studies; Editorial Advisory Board, Genders; Editorial Advisory Board, Gender & History; Editorial Board, Journal of British Studies; Editorial Board, Signs; Editorial Advisory Board, Novel.

Fellowships/Honors: Institute for Advanced Studies, School of Social Sciences; Guggenheim Fellowship; ACLS Fellowship; NEH Fellowship.