• Region(s): Britain
• Time Period(s): 18th century
• Theme(s): Eighteenth-century and Romantic-period British literature and culture; theory and history of the novel; the Gothic; the Enlightenment; book history and the history of reading; affect theory; history of English studies

Education: B.A. Hons., University of British Columbia (1983)
A.M., Ph.D., Stanford University (1992)

Interests: Eighteenth-century and Romantic-period British literature and culture; theory and history of the novel; the Gothic; the Enlightenment; book history and the history of reading; affect theory; history of English studies.

Selected Works:
Loving Literature: A Cultural History (2015); (co-ed with Jack Stillinger) The Romantic Period, Volume D of The Norton Anthology of English Literature (2012); (ed.) Janeites: Austen’s Disciples and Devotees (2000); The Economy of Character: Novels, Market Culture, and the Business of Inner Meaning (1998); (co-ed with William Warner) Cultural Institutions of the Novel (1996).