Academic Interests:

• Eighteenth Century British Literature
• Psychoanalysis and Queer Theory
  
• Sexuality and Gender Studies

Current Projects and Publications:

• Dissertation Title: "Plotting the Coquette: Gender Games and Genre in the Eighteenth Century Cultural Imagination"
• Graduate Fellow, Early Modern Center, Department of English, University of California, Santa Barbara, academic year 2001-2002
• Panelist, Graduate Colloquium on "Violence and Civility," Early Modern Center, University of California, Santa Barbara, October 2001
• Panelist, Early Modern Sexualities Conference, University of California, Santa Barbara, October 2000
• "Triangle Trade: Erotic Desire and the Crisis of Indeterminacy in Jane Austen's Emma," QGRAD 2000, University of California, Los Angeles, November 2000
• "Fathers, Suitors, and Dead Mothers: Exploring Object Choice in Jane Austen's Emma and Persuasion," Published by the Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego, 1998.

Teaching Experience:

• English 102: British and American Literature, 1650-1780
• Desire and the Family in the Eighteenth Century Novel, UC Santa Barbara
• Instructor, Writing Program, UC Santa Barbara
• Teaching Assistant, Department of English, UC Santa Barbara:
  
  • English 30: Enlightenment Communications in England and America
  • English 162: Milton
• Teaching Assistant, Revelle Humanities Program, UC San Diego
• Teacher, Sixth Grade, Beth Israel Day School, San Diego