Research

I am working on a monograph adapted from my dissertation work, titled Devilish Curiosity in Eighteenth-Century British Literature. It investigates why British writers in the long eighteenth century persistently link devils to knowledge that is forbidden, secret, or threatening but also perversely appealing. For more information, see this conversation with Andy Kesson about devils, voyeurism, and knowledge on A Bit Lit.

Peer-Reviewed Publications

“Stage Devilry: Knowledge, Pleasure, and Antitheatricality on the Eighteenth-Century English Stage.” Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, vol. 21, no. 3, 2021, pp. 20-36.

“Observation, Sympathy, and Education in Charlotte Smith’s Conversations Introducing Poetry.” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, vol. 45, no. 3, 2020, pp. 244-60.

“Charlotte Smith’s Ugly Feelings.” SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, vol. 59, no. 3, 2019, pp. 605-24.

“The Virgin and the Spy: Authority, Legacy, and the Reading Public in Eliza Haywood’s The Invisible Spy.” Eighteenth-Century Fiction, vol. 30, no. 4, 2018, pp. 473-93.

“Satirical Conservatism in Catherine Ann Dorset’s Papillonades.” Children’s Literature, special issue of Women’s Writing, vol. 25, no. 1, 2018, pp. 35-50. (Republished in Children’s Literature in the Long 19th Century, edited by Ann Alston and Catherine Butler, Routledge, 2019.)

Refereed Digital Publications

“The Asmodeus Flight: Voyeurism, Forbidden Knowledge, and Satire.” The 18th-Century Common, 19 September 2020.

Editor, The Works of Catherine Upton: The Siege of Gibraltar and Miscellaneous Pieces. Electronic edition with scholarly apparatus. Romantic Circles, June 2017.