Academic Background

• PhD McMaster University 1998
• MA McMaster University 1989
• BA University of Toronto

Biography

Research Interests:

18th-century literature and visual culture, 18th-century feminist rhetoric, femininity and performance, literature and film, culture, sexuality, and evolutionary psychology, the novel

Publications:

Books:

• Beyond Spectacle: Eliza Haywood's Female Spectators, U of T Press, 2004

Publications:

• "Reforming the Coquette?: Eliza Haywood's Vision of Female Epistemology." Fair Philosopher: Eliza Haywood's Female Spectator. Eds. Don Newman and Lynn Wright, Bucknell University Press, 2006. pp 176-92.
• "Originals, Copies and the Iconography of Femininity." Uncommon Reflections: Emerging Discourses in the Spectator. Ed. Donald Newman, University of Delaware Press, 2005, pp 41-58.
• "Spying, Writing, Authority: Eliza Haywood's Bath Intrigues," Studies in Eighteenth-Centruy Culture, Volume XXX, (April: 2001): 183-199.
• "'That Devil Curiosity Which Too Much Haunts the Minds of Women': Eliza Haywood's Female Spectators," LUMEN: Selected Proceedings from the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Vol. XVI (1997): 131-146.