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Associate Professor
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English
Ph.D. Stanford University, 1991, B.A. University of British Columbia, Canada, 1982
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Areas of Research/Interest: Eighteenth-century British literature and cultural history; history of the book; media history and theory
Select Publications:
The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace 1678-1730 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998)
Elinor James: Printed Writings (Ashgate Press, 2005)
"Of Grubs and Other Insects: Constructing the Categories of 'Literature' and 'Ephemera' in Eighteenth-Century British Writing," in Kevin Murphy and Sally O'Driscoll, eds., Fugitive Papers: Epistemology of Ephemera in the Long Eighteenth Century (University of Massachusetts Press, 2010)
"Travel and Travel Writing," in Jack Lynch, ed., Samuel Johnson in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2010)
"Towards a Genealogy of 'Print Culture' and 'Oral Tradition,'" in Clifford Siskin and William Warner, eds., This Is Enlightenment (University of Chicago Press, 2010)
"'The Art of Printing Was Fatal': Print Culture and the Idea of Oral Tradition in Eighteenth-Century Ballad Discourse," in Patricia Fumerton and Anita Guerrini, eds., Ballads and Broadsides 1500-1800 (Ashgate Press, 2010)
"The Discipline We Have Lost?: Eighteenth-Century Feminist Literary History at the Crossroads," Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 29: 1 (Spring 2010)
"'On the Behalf of the Printers': A Late Stuart Printer-Author and Her Causes," in Sabrina Baron, Eric Lindquist, and Eleanor Shevlin, eds., Agent of Change: Print Culture Studies After Elizabeth L. Eisenstein (University of Massachusetts Press, 2007), 125-39
"'The Manufacture and Lingua-facture of Ballad-Making': Broadside Ballads in Long Eighteenth-Century Ballad Discourse," The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 47: 2-3 (Summer/Fall 2006), 149-76
“Defoe and the Contagion of the Oral: Modeling Media Shift in A Journal of the Plague Year,” Publications of the Modern Language Association 121:1 (Jan. 2006), 87-106. Special Issue: "Book History and the Idea of Literature," ed. Seth Lerer and Leah Price
"Why Fanny Can't Write: Joseph Andrews and the (Ir)relevance of Literacy," in Paula R. Backscheider and Catherine Ingrassia, eds., The Blackwell Companion to the Eighteenth-Century English Novel (Blackwell, 2005), 167-90
"Enlightenment Enthusiasms and the Spectacular Failure of the Philadelphian Society," Eighteenth-Century Studies 35.4 (Summer 2002), 515-33
Fellowships/Honors: Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award for The Women of Grub Street; National Humanities Center Fellowship; American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship; American Philosophical Society Research Grant; National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship at the Newberry Library; American Bibliographical Society Research Fellowship; United Kingdom Bibliographical Society Research Grant
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