Education
1993 Ph.D., University of Delaware. Dissertation:
(Re)Productive Histories: Epistolary Fiction and the Origin of the
English Novel. Director, Jerry C. Beasley.
1989 School of Criticism and Theory, Dartmouth
1988 M.A. University of Delaware. Thesis: "Subversion: The
Ineffable Feminine in Shelley and Derrida." Director, Charles E.
Robinson.
1985 B.A. Boston University, cum laude
Publications
Books
The Bawdy Politic: Political Pornography and Prostitution,
1660-1714. Ashgate Press 2004. Scholarly Edition Introduction, Notes, and Appendices. Daniel Defoe, Roxana,
or the Fortunate Mistress. Peterborough: Broadview Press,
forthcoming 2006/2007.
Articles
Invited "Sex and the Archives: Current Work on Early Modern Cultural
Formation," (review essay) 44.1 (2005) Journal of British
Studies. "London's Bridewall: Violent, Prostitution, and the
Unreconstructed Public," Violence, Politics, and Culture in
Early Modern Europe, ed. Joseph P. Ward, under review,
Palgrave/St. Martin's. "The Face that Drew a Thousand Questions," Editorial . 37
Genders 2003. Standard Thieves, Bawds, and Fantasies of Counterrevolutionaries: The
Life and Death of Mrs. Mary Firth,” 5.1 (2005) Journal of Early
Modern Culture Studies: 26-48. “Eliza Haywood’s Defense of London’s Body Politic, “43.3 (2003)
Studies in English Literature: 645-665. "Queen Consorts, the Common People, and Modern Populism."
Genders 31 (2001) "Class, Gender and Public Education: A Material History of the
Academy." Genders 29 (1999) "Dressing Up and Dressing Down: Prostitution, Pornography, and
Seventeenth-Century Mercantilism." Journal of Women's
History: 11.3 (1999): 78-104.
Chapters
Friendship in Fashion by Thomas Otway, edited and annotated,
The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century
Drama, ed. J. Douglas Canfield. Broadview Press, forthcoming.
2001 "Utopian Literature," A three-page entry for The Hanoverian
Britain, ed. Peter Tasch, Garland Press, 1994.
Reviews
Libertines and Radicals in Early Modern London:
Sexuality, Politics, and Literary Culture, 1630-1685, by James
Grantham Turner (Cambridge:Cambridge UP, 2002), H-Albion. 2002. The Whore’s Story: Women, Pornography, and the British
Novel, 1684-1830, by Bradford K. Mudge (New York: Oxford UP,
2000) Vol. 9 (2002) 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries
in the Early Modern Era: 418-421. Heroes and States: On the Ideology of the Restoration
State, by J. D. Canfield (Lexington: Kentucky UP, 1999) Vol. 8
1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern
Era, 2001. Paper Bullets, by Harold Weber (Lexington: University
of Kentucky Press, 1996) 39.2 Criticism (1997): 298-301.
Presentations (Selected)
Invited
"Prostitution, Pornography, and the Public Sphere." University of
Vermont. March 2000. "Prostitution, Pornography, and the Public Sphere." SUNY
Plattsburgh. March 2000. Respondent, "Politics, Friendship, and Sexuality at the Turn of
the Eighteenth Century" Western Society for British Studies,
Denver. October 2000.
Conference Papers
Invited to present "Writing about Women's Agency: Fetishizing
Gender in the Early Modern Archive," for "Early Modern Women in the
Archives" Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, PA, December
2004. Bridewell and Beyond," for the panel, "Correcting Courtesans"
Renaissance Society of America, New York City, April 2004. "Festishizing the Archive" at the roundtable, "New Directions in
Sexuality Studies," American Society for Eighteenth-Century
Studies, Boston, MA, March 2004. "The Fetished Archive," American Siciety for Eighteenth-Century
Studies, Boston, MA, March 2004. "Between Punishment and Discipline: Early Modern Workhouses and
Public Women," Attending to Early Modern Women: Structures and
Subjectivities, University of Maryland, College Park, October
2003. "Bridewill and Beyond: the Pornography of History, or the
History of Pornography," CUNY Eighteenth-Century Interdisciplinary
Group, February 14, 2003. "Whores Spaces/Whores Places," Group for Early Modern Culture
Studies, Philadelphia, PA, November 2001 "Whores, Prostitutes, and other Notorious Women," ASECS,
Philadelphia, PA. April 2000. "Of Saints and Factions: The Tory Deployment of Catherine of
Braganza," MLA, Chicago. December 1999. "Pornography and the Politics of Reading," NEASECS, New
Hampshire. December 1999. "Jades at Livery and other Prostitutes," GEMCS, Newport, RI.
November 1998. "Sex, Class, and Dissent: the 1668 Bawdy House Riots," GEMCS,
Chapel Hill, NC. December 1997 "Crypto-Racism, Resurgent Nationalism and the Conservative
Deployment of White Women's Bodies as the Standard of Civic
Identity," Border Subjects 2: Bodies of Evidence, Normal, IL.
October 1997 "Dressing Up and Dressing Down: Women's Costume and the National
Marketplace," American Historical Association, New York. January
1997. "Bring It on Home: Feminism, Eighteenth-Century Studies, and the
Politics of Community," MLA, Washington DC. December 1996 "The Face of Liberal Racism: Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas"
NEMLA, Montreal Canada. April 1996 "Pregnant Pauses: Roe v. Wade and Enlightenment Subjectivity,"
Conference on Psychoanalysis and Postcolonialism: Nation, Identity,
and Self, Washington DC. October 1995. "Meal-tubs and Midwives: Elizabeth Cellier and the Politics of
Disembodied Truth," GEMCS, Dallas, TX. October 1995. "The Romance of Politics: Aphra Behn, the Exclusion Crisis, and
Love Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister," Conference on
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Women Writers. March 1995. "Bodies that Matter, Voices that Register: Reimagining the
Humanities Classroom, Kansas State Cultural Studies Symposium:
"Western Humanities, Pedagogy, and the Public Sphere." March
1995. Invited to present "From Within Their Own Ranks: College
Newspapers and the Rhetoric of Feminism," at the National Popular
Culture Association Conference, Philadelphia, PA.April 1995. "From Within Their Own Ranks: College Newspapers and the
Rhetoric of Feminism," Midatlantic Conference for Popular Culture,
Wheeling, WV. October 1994. "Feminism, History, and the Possibility of Justice." GRIP (Group
for Research in the Professions): "Knowledges: Production,
Distribution, Revision," Minneapolis, MN. April 1994 Panels
"Private Parts: Pornography and Prostitution in
Seventeenth-Century England," a panel organized for GEMCS, Chapel
Hill, NC. December 1997. Co-Organizer with Gwen Gorzelsky, "Sites of Connection: (Post)
Humanist Activism and Public Policy," a workshop for GEMCS, Chapel
Hill, NC. December 1997 "Nostalgia Just Isn't What It Used to Be," a panel organized for
GEMCS, Pittsburgh, PA. September 1996 "The Policies and Politics of Material Bodies," a panel
organized for NEMLA, Montreal, Canada. April 1996.
Grants and Awards
Faculty Development Grant to complete archival research for The
Bawdy Politic, Moorhead State University, 1998. Best Dissertation in the Humanities, "Wilbur Owen Sypherd"
Award, University of Delaware, 1994. Summer Research Grant, Department of English, University of
Delaware, 1992. School of Criticism and Theory, Dartmouth College--Travel grant
and partial tuition scholarship,1989. Georgetown University School of Literary Theory--Travel grant,
1987.
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