University of Tulsa

Faculty Member, English Language and Literature

Associate Professor

Chapman College of Arts and Sciences

About

I am Associate Professor of English at the University of Tulsa and have been editor of Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature since 2005.

My scholarly interests are focused on depictions of colonized peoples, representations of colonizing activity, and the circulation of texts, genres, and ideas around the British Atlantic before 1800. Within this framework I am focused on religious discourse, missionary writings, women’s literature, and emotion studies. I am developing some interest in print culture and taught a graduate seminar last semester on early modern British and colonial American book history. 

I am the author of The Poor Indians: British Missionaries, Native Americans, and Colonial Sensibility (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004).
 
My current project has the working title “Daughters of Israel: Biblical Women and British Identities in Eighteenth-Century Transatlantic Literature.” It argues that biblical women provided a rhetorical platform for the articulation of collective identities – such as confessional, racial, or national – in the British Atlantic world of the long eighteenth century. I also am writing a few articles on missionary fantasy in eighteenth-century British and American literature.

I serve on the editorial board of Religion in the Age of Enlightenment, am a consultant reader for Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, and am a past president of the South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. For 2011-13 I am Executive Coordinator of the Society of Early Americanists.

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