academic interests
I’m writing a dissertation on Delarivier Manley, Eliza Haywood, Martha Fowke Sansom, and Laetitia Pilkington, among others. I’ve just passed my prospectus exam and will officially be in candidacy soon.
I am an assistant director of the eComma Project.
Eighteenth century people of interest, including the stars of my dissertation:
- Samuel Johnson
- Richard Savage
- Eliza Haywood
- Aaron Hill
- Charlotte Lennox
- Emma Hamilton
- Charlotte Charke
- Jane Austen
- Laetitia Pilkington
- Delarivier Manley
Topics of interest:
- The history and rhetoric of charity
- Patronage and authorship
- Women writers
- Romantic friendship
- Eighteenth-century models of femininity
- The rhetoric of prostitution in the eighteenth century
- Visual studies
- Biography and autobiography
- Digital humanities
Other genres and time periods of interest:
- Victorian novels and prose
- Renaissance poetry and drama
- Modernist poetry and fiction
- Prehistoric and classical Greece
- Han China and Chinese lyric poetry
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