Ph.D. in English, 2015, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
MS in English, 2008, Utah State University
BA in English, 2005, Brigham Young University
Interests
British Literature (18th-20th Centuries)
Interdisciplinary Studies
Coming-of-Age Novels
Women Writers
Children’s & YA Literature
Mystery & Detective Fiction
The Gothic Tradition
Publications (select list)
Concepts of Managing: A Road Map for Avoiding Career Hazards by Ronald Harris, with Jacqueline H. Harris and Casey B. Harris. AuthorHouse. 2023.
“Women’s Letters as Life Writing 1840-1885 by Catherine Delafield [book review].” Brontë Studies, vol. 47.2, April 2022, pp. 154-159.
[Reprint] “The Intersection of L. T. Meade’s Professional and Domestic Victorian Celebrity.” Children’s Literature Review. Edited by Carol A. Schwartz, vol. 236, 2020, Gale. Gale Literature Resource Center. Originally published in Gender and Work: Intersectionality, Resistance, and Identity. Edited by Miglena Sternadori and Carolyn Prentice, Cambridge Scholars Press, pp. 198-210.
“A World of Girls.” Companion to Victorian Popular Fiction. Edited by Kevin A. Morrison, McFarland & Co., 2018, p. 272.
“L. T. Meade.” Companion to Victorian Popular Fiction. Edited by Kevin A. Morrison, McFarland & Co., 2018, p. 151.
“The Intersection of L. T. Meade’s Professional and Domestic Victorian Celebrity.” Gender and Work: Intersectionality, Resistance, and Identity. Edited by Miglena Sternadori and Carolyn Prentice, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2016, pp. 198-210.
“The Making of Modern Children’s Literature in Britain: Publishing and Criticism in the 1960s and 1970s by Lucy Pearson [book review].” The Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature, vol. 69.1, 2015, pp. 111-112.
“George MacDonald’s Frightening Female: Menopause and Makemnoit in The Light Princess.” North Wind: A Journal of George MacDonald Studies, vol. 33, 2014, pp. 21-34.
“Performing Authorship in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Lecture Tour by Amanda Adams [book review].” The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, vol. 47.2, Fall 2014, pp. 199-201.
“Rewriting Female Representations in Girl with a Pearl Earring & Girl in Hyacinth Blue: Historical Female Portraiture, Human Subjectivity, and Johannes Vermeer’s Work.” Art and the Artist in Society. Edited by José Jiménez-Justiniano, Elsa Luciano Feal, and Jane Elizabeth Alberdeston, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2013, pp. 71-84.
“Are We There Yet?: Virtual Travel and Victorian Realism by Alison Byerly [book review].” The Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature, vol. 67.2, Fall 2013, pp. 153-156.
“Fernand Léger and Willa Cather’s ‘Coming, Aphrodite!’” Willa Cather and Aestheticism: From Romanticism to Modernism. Edited by Ann Moseley and Sarah Cheney Watson, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2012, pp. 139-152.
“Imaginary Citizens: Child Readers and the Limits of American Independence, 1640-1868 by Courtney Weikle-Mills [book review].” The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, vol. 45.1, Spring 2012, pp. 108-111.
“Les filles du roi and Female Destinations in Shadows on the Rock.” Willa Cather Newsletter and Review. Edited by Robert Thacker, vol. 54.1, Summer 2010, pp. 16-21.
