Scholarship and Biography

My scholarship has been focused within three primary arenas: narrative theory and the novel, with a particular interest in women writers; eighteenth-century European and Atlantic studies; and gender and sexuality. I am currently pursuing projects focused on narratives of Palestine and Israel alongside my continued engagement with the global Age of Revolution.

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Honors

Wayne C. Booth Lifetime Achievement Award
International Society for the Study of Narrative, March 2020
Honorable Mention, Phelan Prize for Best Article of 2019
International Society for the Study of Narrative, 2020
Joan Kelly Prize, Best Book in Women's History/Feminist Theory (for The Sexuality of History)
American Historical Association (United States, Washington D.C.) - AHA, January 2016
Honorable Mention, Louis Gottschalk Prize for the year's best book in Eighteenth Century Studies
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (United States, Winston-Salem) - ASECS, 2016
Finalist, Lambda Literary Award (for The Sexuality of History)
Lambda Literary Awards, 2015
Honorable Mention, Perkins Prize for Best Book on Narrative in 2015 (for *Narrative Theory Unbound*)
International Society for the Study of Narrative, 2016
Great Teachers Honoree, Shirley Bill Fund
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (United States, Winston-Salem) - ASECS, 2012
Innovative Course Design Award
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (United States, Winston-Salem) - ASECS, 2012
Augustus Anson Whitney Scholar, Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study
Harvard University (United States, Cambridge), 2004-2005
Graduate English Organization Faculty Service Award
University of Maryland, College Park (United States, College Park) - UMD, 1999-2000
Folger Institute Fellowship
Folger Shakespeare Library (United States, Washington D.C.), 1998-1999
Graduate English Organization Faculty Mentor Award
University of Maryland, College Park (United States, College Park) - UMD, 1997-2000
Citation for Teaching Excellence
University of Maryland, College Park (United States, College Park) - UMD, 1996
Distinguished Scholar-Teacher
University of Maryland, College Park (United States, College Park) - UMD, 1994-1995
Fellowship
National Endowment for the Humanities (United States, Washington D.C.) - NEH, 1987-1988
Fellowship
American Council of Learned Societies (United States, New York) - ACLS, 1981

Organizational Affiliations

Professor Emerita of English, Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Comparative Literature, Department of English, Brandeis University

Education

University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ph.D.
University of Wisconsin-Madison
M.A.
Marquette University
B.A.