Recent Courses

"Literature and Science in the Nineteenth Century," "Charles Dickens," "Transatlantic Literature," "Victorian Modernity," "The Novella," "Literature and the Mediated Subject," "Victorian Cultural Studies"

Research Interests

Nineteenth-century literature, especially Victorian; cultural and media studies; literature and science; transatlanticism; reception history

Book

Victorian Soundscapes, Oxford University Press, 2003.

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Current Projects

Electric Affinities, Oxford University Press, under contract.
“Invisible Blackness”
“Atlantic Cable,” Victorian Review (forthcoming 2008)
"'Yankee Doodle' and 'The Star-Spangled Banner,'" in A New Literary History of America, ed. Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2009)

Recent Articles
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“Victorian Soundscapes Revisited,” in Victorian Soundscapes Revisited, ed. Martin Hewitt and Rachel Cowgill
(Leeds: Trinity and All Saints, 2007): 36-52
“George Eliot and the Sequel Question,” New Literary History 37 (2006): 361-88
“The Two Voices,” Victorian Poetry 41 (2003): 642-45
“The Tramp of a Fly’s Footstep, or, the Shriek, Rattle, and Roar of a Victorian Sound Track,” The American
Scholar 71.2 (2002): 85-94
“The Victorian Aura of the Recorded Voice,” New Literary History 32 (2001): 769-86
“The Soundproof Study: Victorian Professionals, Work Space, and Urban Noise,” Victorian Studies 42 (2000):
427-53
“‘Red War Is My Song’: Whitman, Higginson, and Civil War Music,” in Walt Whitman and Modern Music: War,
Desire, and the Trials of Nationhood, ed. Lawrence Kramer (New York: Garland, 2000), 1-23
“Disturbing Surfaces: Representations of the Fragment in The School for Scandal,” English Literary History 65
(1998): 637-52
“Shakespeare Divided: Revision and Transformation in Marowitz’s Variations on The Merchant of Venice and
Wesker’s Shylock,” Journal of Theatre and Drama 2 (1996): 75-91
“The Union of Music and Text in Whitman’s Drum-Taps and Higginson’s Army Life in a Black Regiment,” Walt
Whitman Quarterly Review 12 (1995): 230-45
“Shylock and the Struggle for Closure,” Judaism 43 (1994): 173-89; repr. in Shakespearean Criticism 53, ed.
Michelle Lee (Detroit: Gale, 2000), 127-36

Last Updated: October 23, 2007