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Associate Professor
of
English
Ph.D. 1996 (History of American Civilization), A.M. 1992 (history), Harvard; B.A. summa cum laude 1987 (literature and history), Yale
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Areas of Research/Interest: American literature and culture; material and cultural history of literacy; literary practices of everyday life; ethics and civic life in American liberalism.
Select Publications:
The Clerk's Tale: Young Men and Moral Life in Nineteenth-Century America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2003.
Institutions of Reading: The Social Life of Libraries in the United States (co-editor). Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007.
Libraries as Agencies of Culture (co-editor). Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2002.
“Temperance, Mass Culture, and the Romance of Experience,” American Literary History 19:2 (Spring, 2007).
“Faith in Reading: Public Libraries, Liberalism, and Civil Religion,” Institutions of Reading: The Social Life of Libraries in the United States.
“Finding Barnum on the Internet,” Common-place 5:6 (October, 2005).
"The Commerce of Thought: Professional Authority and Business Ethics in Nineteenth-Century America," Prospects: An Annual of American Cultural Studies 27 (2002).
“The Costs of Character,” ISSUE 6 (Fall, 2001). "Frederick Douglass, Between Speech and Print," Professing Rhetoric: Selected Papers from the 2000 Rhetoric Society of America Conference, Antczak, Coggins, and Klinger, eds. Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2002.
Affiliations: Editorial board, American Studies
Fellowships/Honors: National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship; Finalist, Prize for a First Book of the Modern Language Association; Honorable Mention, Ralph Gabriel Dissertation Prize of the American Studies Association; Helen Choate Bell Dissertation Prize in American Literature, Harvard University; Charlotte Newcombe Dissertation Fellowship; Jacob K. Javits Fellowship.
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