About

Professor of English, Xavier University

I teach at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. I have published on Jane Austen, Frances Brooke, Charlotte Lennox, and animals in the long eighteenth century. I’m currently working on a book about eighteenth-century women novelists’ use of the female quixote trope to address anti-novel discourse. My new project exploring Frances Burney’s Catholic sympathies has been supported by the 2017 Hester Davenport/ Burney Society Fellowship at the Chawton House Library in Hampshire, UK, the Spring 2018 Ruff Endowed Chair in Eighteenth-Century Studies at the University of Dayton, and the 2022 Xavier University Jesuit Faculty Fellowship.

I live in Cincinnati with my husband, who teaches at the University of Cincinnati, and our two children. We also have a cat, Cookie, and a dog, Posy, who generate significantly more cross-town rivalry than their humans do (Go X).