Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA.

Professor, Department of English (Fall 2023)

Associate Professor, Department of English (2019)

Assistant Professor, Department of English (2014)

Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.

Ph.D. in Comparative Literature.

Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.

M. Phil. in Comparative Literature.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.

B.S. Double Major in Literature and Mathematics, Minor in French.

Grimm Realities: Identity and Justice in the Television Series, co-edited with Daniel Farr. McFarland, 2023

Mocking Bird Technologies: Essays on the Comparative and Global Poetics of Bird Mimicry, ed. Christopher GoGwilt and Melanie Holm. New York: Fordham University Press.

“Wit. An Upper-Level English Course,” Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer, 37.2.  (2023).

“A Digression on Digressive Assignments,” Studies in the Novel: Long 18th-Century Teaching Tools, ed. Joel Sodano and Michael Brown (Fall 2020).

Playing Poetry: Entering Swift’s Dressing Room Online,” Aphra Behn Online: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1660-1830, 10.1 (Spring 2020).

“Authorial Sovereignty: Pleasure and Paratext in Margaret Cavendish’s Blazing Worlds,” Restoration 41.1 (2017), pp. 5-28.

Arabella’s Valentines and Literary Connections [dot] com: Playing with Eighteenth-Century Gender Online,” Aphra Behn Online: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1660-1830, 7.1 (Spring 2017). 

“Laughter, Skepticism, and the Pleasures of Being Misunderstood in Sterne’s The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman.” The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, 55 (2014), pp. 355-376.

“‘O Vanity!’ Fielding’s Other Antisocial Affectation,” Philological Quarterly, 89 (2010), pp. 263-281.

—Reprinted in Literary Criticism from 1400-1800. Ed. Laurence J. Trudeau. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, Cengage Learning, 2016. Online

“Introduction,”  in Grimm Realities: Identity and Justice in the Television Series, co-edited with Daniel Farr. North Carolina: McFarland, 2023.

“All about Eve: Juliette and the Woman Problem,” in Grimm Realities: Identity and Justice in the Television Series, co-edited with Daniel Farr. North Carolina: McFarland, 2023.

“The Wesen Who Came to Dinner,” in Grimm Realities: Identity and Justice in the Television Series, co-edited with Daniel Farr. North Carolina: McFarland, 2023.

“Jane-as-Fanny: Patricia Rozema’s Woman Writer in Mansfield Park” in Geniuses, Addicts, and Scribbling Women, ed. Cynthia Cravens. Lexington: Kentucky UP 2023.

“O Friends, There Are No Friends: The Aesthetics of Avian Sympathy in Defoe and Sterne” in Mocking Bird Technologies: Essays on the Comparative and Global Poetics of Bird Mimicry, ed. Christopher GoGwilt and Melanie Holm. New York: Fordham University Press.

“Introduction,” co-author Christopher GoGwilt, in Mocking Bird Technologies: Essays on the Comparative and Global Poetics of Bird Mimicry, ed. Christopher GoGwilt and Melanie Holm. New York: Fordham University Press.