Essays
Why Cornel West Loves Jane Austen.
The Huffington Post, “Books” category, “The Blog,” November 12, 2014.
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Betray Our Students for Publisher’s Profit?
The Chronicle of Higher Education, “The Conversation” blog, 2014.
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To Sew or Not to Sew: What’s a Woman to Do?
Atenea XXVIII.2 (2008): 171-74.
The Reunion.
Commonweal: A Review of Religion, Politics & Culture 14 Sept. 2007: 38.
Welcome to Womanhood: The Sweetest 16 Party. Multicultural coming-of-age celebration.
Teen Magazine, Fall 2006: 84.
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"Writing Aloud": A Simple, Powerful Tool.
Florida College English Association: News for English Professionals, Fall, 1998.
Nonfiction
… she ventured to recommend a larger allowance of prose in his daily study.
—Anne Elliot’s advice to Captain Benwick
in Persuasion
Scholarly Articles
"Every day was adding to the verdure of the early trees": Women, Trees, and the Relationship Between Self and Other in Jane Austen’s Novels.
ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 25.1 (2018): 80-94.
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The "Ordination of Fanny Price": Female Monasticism and Vocation in Mansfield Park.
Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal On-Line 35.1 (2014): n. pag. jasna.org.
Lounging Ladies and Galloping Girls: Physical Strength and Femininity in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park.
Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 38.3 (2009): 342-358.
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The "loveliest and lordliest": Gender in Charles Williams’ Spiritual Bildungsroman.
Renascence 60.4 (2008): 309-323.
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Palm Beach: Utopia or Dystopia?
Florida Studies: Proceedings of the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Florida College English Association. Ed. Claudia Slate and Keith Honeycutt. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008.
The Offending Pig: Determinism in the Focus Features "Pride and Prejudice."
Special Issue of Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal On-Line 27.2 (Summer 2007): n. pag. jasna.org.
Jane’s Wonder Women: Female Heroism the Austenian Way.
Sensibilities: The Journal of the Jane Austen Society of Australia 33 (December 2006): 20-34.
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… you are a young lady of deep reflection, I know, and read great books
and make extracts.
—Mr. Bennet to his daughter Mary in Pride and Prejudice
The Jane Austen Diet: The Weight of Women in Austen’s Letters.
Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal 27 (2005): 75-87.
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"I Make the Whole World Answer to My Art": Alice Meynell’s Poetic Identity.
Victorian Poetry 40.2 (2003): 259-275.
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Fathers and Lovers: the Gender Dynamics of Relational Influence in Emma.
Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal On-Line 21.2 (2000): n. pag. jasna.org.
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Fanny Burney’s The Wanderer: Actress as Virtuous Deceiver.
European Romantic Review 10.4 (1999): 424-451.
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Writing for Deaf Ears: Harriet Martineau and the Case of Victorian Women Essayists.
Rhetorical Designs for Professional and Technical Writing: A Teacher’s Guide. Ed. William E. Tanner. Dallas: Caxton’s, 1994. 67-75.
Shaping Self Through Spontaneous Oral Narration in Richard Adams’ Watership Down.
The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts: Special Issue: Watership Down (1994): 25-33.
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Scholarly Articles Co-authored with Students
"We sick": The Deweys as Women’s Willful Self-destruction in Toni Morrison’s Sula.
Co-authored with Gayle Fallon.
Journal of Feminist Scholarship (Fall 2018 issue, free download).
"no net ensnares me": Bird Imagery and the Dynamics of Dominance and Submission in Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre.
Co-authored with Heather Lawrence.
Brontë Studies 40.3 (2015): 240-251.
(abstract; special access needed)
Ecofeminism in Christina Rossetti’s Goblin Market.
Co-authored with Hannah Thullbery.
Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature 126 (2014): 63-87.
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"It was not your words; it was the truth they conveyed": Confrontation and Social Change in Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South.
Co-authored with Kelsey Satalino.
The Gaskell Journal 27 (2013): 108-125.
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… he recommended the books which charmed
her leisure hours, he encouraged her taste … he made reading useful by talking to her of what she read, and heightened its attraction by judicious praise.
—Edmund Bertram mentors Fanny Price in Mansfield Park
“. . . let him succeed at last, Fanny”: Edmund Bertram as Henry Crawford’s Double in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park.
Co-authored with Christina Ibañez Unkel.
Sensibilities: The Journal of the Jane Austen Society of Australia 46 (2013): 53-68.
The Precarious Effects of Secrecy in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility.
Co-authored with Renee Long.
Sensibilities: The Journal of the Jane Austen Society of Australia 38 (2009): 51-60.
Mrs. Jennings and Mrs. Palmer: The Path to Female Self-Determination in Austen’s Sense and Sensibility.
Co-authored with Jordan Kidd.
Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal 30 (2008): 135-148.
Walking a Path toward Marriage in Persuasion.
Co-authored with Tiffany VonderBecke.
Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal On-Line 28.1 (Winter 2007): n. pag. jasna.org.