Education 

State University of New York, Stony Brook, Ph.D. 2007
DePaul University, BA, English 1998

Honors, Fellowships, Awards

   • Excel Fellowship, Office of the Vice President of Research, Fall 2024
   • Morrison Research Fellowship, Department of English, Spring 2024
   • University of South Carolina, College of Arts and Sciences Travel Grant, Spring 2020
   • Provost Arts and Humanities Fellowship, Spring 2018
   • Faculty Fellow, South Carolina Race and Reconciliation Collaborative, 2016
   • Faculty Fellow of English Language and Literature, Peter and Bonnie McCausland, 2015
   • Teacher of the Year Award, Department of English, 2015-2016
   • Provost Arts and Humanities Fellowship, 2012
   • American Council of Learned Societies Faculty Fellowship, 2010-2011
   • Josephine Abney Fellowship for Research in Women’s and Gender Studies, 2012
   • Mayers Faculty Fellowship, Huntington Library, 2009
   • Morton E. Kahn Award, Best Dissertation, SUNY, Stony Brook, 2007

Publications and Current Research

BOOKS
   • Hemispheric Regionalism: Romance and the Geography of Genre (Oxford University Press, 2016)
   • Walter Scott and Nineteenth-Century America: Genres, Genealogies, and Geographies (in progress, edited collection with Juliet Shields)
   • Secrecy in the Novel  (in progress, book length manuscript)

ARTICLES and CHAPTERS
   • "History, Romance, and the Novel." Oxford Handbook of Charles Brockden Brown, Ed. 2 Philip Barnard and Stephen Shapiro. Oxford, Oxford University Press (2019): 155-170.
   • Secret History in the Early Nineteenth-Century Americas. The Secret History in Literature, 1660-1820. Eds., Rebecca Bullard and Rachel Carnell. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press (2017): 242-255.
   • "Haiti and the U.S. Novel" The Haitian Revolution and the Early United States, Eds Elizabeth Maddock Dillon and Michael Drexler. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press (2016): 232-249.
   • "Trials and Confessions of Fugitive Slave Narratives"  Journeys of the Slave Narrative in the Early Americas, Eds. Nicole N. Aljoe and Ian Finesth. Charlottesville, University of Virginia Press (2014): 47-73.
   • "Geography, Genre, and Hemispheric Regionalism," Atlantic Studies, 10:2 (2013): 211-227.
   • "Romance to Novel: A Secret History." NARRATIVE, Vol. 17, No. 3 (Oct 2009): 255-273.
   • "John Howison’s New Gothic Nationalism and Transatlantic Exchange." Early American Literature. 44, 2 (2008): 309-335.

REVIEWS
   • "History, Romance, and the Novel." Oxford Handbook of Charles Brockden Brown, Ed. 2 Philip Barnard and Stephen Shapiro. Oxford, Oxford University Press (2019): 155-170.
   • Secret History in the Early Nineteenth-Century Americas. The Secret History in Literature, 1660-1820.  Eds., Rebecca Bullard and Rachel Carnell. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press (2017): 242-255.
   • Ward, Candace. Crossing the Line: Early Creole Novels and Anglophone Caribbean Culture in the Age of Emancipation. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2017. The ALH Online Review, March 2019. Review
   • Kennedy, Gerald J. Strange Nation: Literary Nationalism and Cultural Conflict in the Age of Poe. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2016. “Poe’s Queer Eye.” Poe Studies: History, Theory, Interpretation. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, v. 50, 2017. E5-E11.
   • Bergeaud, Émeric. Stella: A Novel of the Haitian Revolution. Translated and edited by Lesley S. Curtis & Christen Mucher. New York, NY: New York University Press, 2015. The ALH Online Review, October 2016. Review
   • Brickhouse, Anna. The Unsettlement of America: Translation, Interpretation, and the Story of don Luis de Velasco, 1560-1945. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2015. Early American Literature, v.50, n. 3 (2015): 953-959.
   • Cohen, Margaret. The Novel and the Sea. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010. “Maritime Novelism.” Novel: A Forum on Fiction, 45:3 (2012): 455-460.
   • Pratt, Lloyd. Archives of American Time: Literature and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History, 40:2 (2011): 17-22.
   • Shapiro, Stephen. The Culture and Commerce of the Early American Novel: Reading the Atlantic World-System. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State Press, 2008. Huntington Library Quarterly, 73:2 (2-10): 339-343.

ENTRIES
   • “Teaching Ira and Isabella; or, The Natural Children. A Novel, Founded in Fiction.  (1807).” Just Teach One. No. 13, Summer 2018. Jto.Americanantiquarian.org
   • In the Cage.” A Critical Companion to Henry James, Eds. Eric Haralson and Kendall Johnson. Facts on File: New York, NY (2009): 246-255.

Conferences and Lectures 

INVITED LECTURES
   • “Meditation on critical regionalism, the sea, and ‘comparative’ literary studies.” American Literature Colloquium. University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC: 2014.
   • “Historical Distance and the American Mediterranean.” International symposium. Hemispheric Encounters: The Early United States in a Transatlantic Perspective. University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany: April 2012.
   • “Geography and Genre: Cross-Dressing, Piracy, and the Global South.” Josephine Abney Lecture. University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC: March 2012.
   • “Buccaneers and Filibusteros: Cuba, Periódicos, and U.S. Popular Romance.” The Institute for African American Research. University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC: March 2011.
   • “Desperate Form and Singular ‘Effect’ in Poe’s Periodical Fiction.” The Art Institute, South Carolina Poetry Initiative, Richland Public Library, Columbia, SC: 2010.

RECENT CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS   
“Scott, Secrecy, and the South.” Thirteenth International Walter Scott Conference. University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC: May 2024.
   • “Wayward Forms.” C19 Americanists and Critical University Studies.” Roundtable. C19: Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists. Pasadena, CA: March 2024.
   • Chair. “C19 Caribbean: Circulation and Region. Seminar.” C19: Society of Nineteenth- Century Americanists. Coral Gables, FL: April 2020.
   • “Circulating Information in the West.” Chair/Respondent. SEA: The Society of Early Americanists. Eugene, OR: March 2019.
   • “Climates of Secrecy.” Roundtable with Justine Murison. C19: Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists. Albuquerque, NM: March 2018.
   • “Discerning Secrecy.” Eleventh International Scott Conference. Paris, France: July 2018.
   • “Public Secrecy, Private Memory.” Roundtable. SEA: The Society of Early Americanists. Tulsa, OK: March 2017.
   • “The Coquette; or, the Secret History of Elizabeth Whitman.” Working Group on the History of the Novel in America. SEA: Society of Early Americanists. Tulsa, OK: March 2017.
   • “Unsettling Forms.” Roundtable. C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists. College Station, PA: March 2016.
   • “Meditations on Critical Regionalism, the sea, and ‘comparative’ literary studies.” Race and Empire Caucus. American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies. Los Angeles, CA: March 2015.
   • “Little Histories.” Microgeneres in the Eighteenth Century. American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies. Los Angeles, CA: March 2015.
   • “Geographies of Memory in Nineteenth-Century America.” Roundtable. Modern Language Association. Vancouver, BC: January 2015.

Academic Service

PROFESSIONAL
   • C19: Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, nominated and ran for VP/President 2025-2029
   • Early Career Mentor, 2024-2027
   • Thirteenth International Walter Scott Conference, Program Committee Member and Host
   • Edinburgh Network for Studies in Secrecy (founder, Penny Fielding)
   • Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Editorial Board
   • C19: Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, Program Committee Member, 2018-2020
   • Virtual Program Committee, 2020
   • Clio, A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History, Book Review Editor, 2014-2018 (appointed)
   • African American Review, Early American Studies, Genre, ESQ, Studies in American Fiction, Broadview Press, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, University of North Carolina Press, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Reader/Referee
   • American Studies Association, American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies, c19: Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, Modern Language Association, SEA: Society of Early Americanists, Member