Sloth – Reaktion Books, December 2023.
Dolphin– Reaktion Books, 2014.
England in 1815: A Critical Edition of The Journal of Joseph Ballard – Palgrave MacMillan, 2009.
Useful Knowledge: The Victorians, Morality, and the March of Intellect – Duke University Press, 2001.
The Mummy!: A Tale of the Twenty- Second Century (1827), by Jane Webb (Reprint) – U. Michigan Press, 1994.
One Culture: Essays in Science and Literature. Ed. George Levine. Asst. Ed. Alan Rauch – U. of Wisconsin Press, 1987.

Essays

“Gendered Abjection in Gaskell’s Gothic Stories,” with Erin Dulin, in Approaches to Teaching Elizabeth Gaskell, MLA (Forthcoming).
“Science, Women, and the Mother Tongue: Translating Knowledge for 19^th Century Readers,” Women’s Studies, 52:7, 796-815, 2023.
“Gaskell and Science,” Companion to Elizabeth Gaskell, ed. Elizabeth Ludlow, Palgrave, Forthcoming.
“Empire and Zoology,” ed. Pamela Gilbert, The Palgrave Handbook of Nineteenth Century Literature and Science, Palgrave, Forthcoming.
“Maria Barton Hack (1777–1844)” in Ed. Lesa Scholl, The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women’s Writing. London: Palgrave, 2022.
“Death as a Sacrament in Kingsley’s Water-Babies” in Jonathan Conlin and Jan Marten Ivo Klaver (eds.), Charles Kingsley: Faith, Flesh, and Fantasy. Routledge Studies in Cultural History, 2021. Pp. 184-201.
“The Sukotyro: On the Extinction of a Nonexistent Animal,” Configurations, Vol. 28 (1) 2020: 51-88.
“Ocean of Whales and Dolphins,” RISE: A Children’s Literacy Journal. Spring/Summer 2017.
“Science and Literature.” Blackwell Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature. Dino Felluga, Linda Hughes, and Pamela Gilbert, Eds. London, 2015.
“Ecce Emendator: The Cost of Knowledge for Scholarly Editors,” Chronicle of Higher Education, [https://chroniclevitae.com/news/285-ecce-emendator-the-cost-of-knowledge-for-scholarly-editors].
“Scholarly Publishing: Hindsight Toward a Digital Future.”,J. of Scholarly Publishing, Vol. 42, Number 1 / October 2010, 56-67.
“The Pupil of Nature: Science and Natural Theology in Maria Hack’s “Harry Beaufoy.” In Laurence Talairach-Vielmas, Ed., Science in the Nursery, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholar’s Press, 2011.
“The Scholarly Journal: Hindsight Toward a Digital Future,” Journal of Scholarly Publishing, Vol. 42, Number 1 / October 2010, 56-67.
“The Sins of Sloths: The Giant Ground Sloth as a Paleontological Parable,” Victorian Animal Dreams, Deborah Morse, Martin Danahay. Aldershot: Ashgate Press, 2007. Pp. 215-228.
“Mentoria: Women, Children, and the Structures of Science.” Nineteenth Century Contexts, Volume 27, Number 4, (December 2005), pp. 335-351.
“Great Work. You’re Fired.” [Program-Building and Disposable Labor: A Neglected Fourth Dimension in Evaluating Faculty], The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 1 2005.
“The Lacunae of Science: Observing the Unobserved in the Practices of Knowledge.” Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, Volume 28, No. 3, September 2003, pp. 209-216.
“Victorian Poetry and Science.” In The Blackwell Companion to Victorian Poetry, ed. Richard Cronin, Antony Harrison, and Alison Chapman. London: Blackwell, 2002.
“Cetacean Culture: Resisting Myths and Addressing Lacunae.” Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2001 Vol. 24 (2): 352-353.
“Parables and Parodies: Mrs. Gatty’s Interpretations of Nature,” Children’s Literature (Yale University Press), edited by Mitzi Myers and U. C. Knoepflemacher, Vol. 25 (1997):137-152.
Forum on Interdisciplinarity. PMLA, March 1996: 273-274.
“Looking for Home: Canada and the Major Leagues,” in William Humber and John St. James, eds. All I Thought about was Baseball; Writings on a Canadian Pastime. Toronto: U. Toronto Press, 1996. 246-249.
“The Monstrous Body of Knowledge in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.” Studies in Romanticism, Vol. 34. (Summer, 1995): 227-253.
“The Tailor Transformed: The Notion of Change in Charles Kingsley’s Alton Locke.” Studies in the Novel, Summer 1993, Vol. 25(2): 196-213.
“‘Preparing the Rising Generation’; Romanticism and Sir Richard Phillips’s ‘Juvenile Library.”‘ Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 1991, Vol 15 (1): 3-27.
“A World of Faith on a Foundation of Science: Science and Religion in British Children’s Literature, 1761-1878.”Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, Spring 1989, Vol. 14 (1): 13-19.
“Bruce Springsteen and the Dramatic Monologue.” American Studies, Vol. xxix (1), Spring 1988: 29-49.

Curated Exhibit & TedX Presentation

“All Real Animals are Imaginary,” TedX – Charlotte. Feb. 6, 2021[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZqadvWIbJo]
Subverting the Natural Order: Women and Science, Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature, University of Florida, November 2 – December 18, 2021.

Areas of Interest

Science, Technology, and Culture
The Long 18th Century, Romantic, & Victorian Literature & Culture
Codifications of Knowledge
Animal Studies
The Graphic Novel
Material Culture – The Meaning of Things
Women’s Studies
History of the Book including New Media, Visualization, & Digital Publishing

Courses Taught

ENGL 6680: The Victorians and Empire
ENGL 4750 (Honors): Women & Science in the Early 19th Century
ENGL 4072/5072: The Bible as Literature
ENGL 6680: British Women Writers in the 19th C.
ENGL 6070: Dickens Bicentennial Seminar
ENGL 6126: The Victorian Era
ENGL/Honors 3050: Animals, Culture, and Society
ENGL 3050: Jewish Identity & The Graphic Novel
LBST 2213: Science, Technology, and Society
HONR 3701:Science, Technology, and Human Values
LBST 2102: Global and Intercultural Connections
ENGL 3302: British Literature Survey II

Professional Activities

Advisory Board, Publications of the Modern Language Association (PMLA) -2019-2023
Board of Directors, Charlotte Folk Society , 2023 –
Chapter Head, Sigma Xi: The Scientific Research Honor Society (2020 – 2023)
President: Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ) (2012-2015)
Editor: Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology (Johns Hopkins) (2001-2010)
Past- President: Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts
BOOK SERIES EDITOR, Intersections in Literature and Science, University of Wales Press, 2008-
ADVISORY BOARD, Penn State University Press –Animalibus: Of Animals and Cultures, a series edited by Nigel Rothfels and Garry Marvin – 2011-2013
Modern Language Association, National Program Committee, 2008-2011
MLA Ad-Hoc Committee to Study the Feasibility of Changing the Convention Dates,” 1995-96

Fellowships and Awards

Visiting Fellowship, Princeton University 2023
Mellon Fellowship, Library Company, Philadelphia 2019
Chancellor’s Diversity Grant, “Jewish Identity & the Graphic Novel,” UNC Charlotte, 2008-09
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American Studies Fellowship, New York Public Library, New York, 2007
Boston Athenaeum Bicentenary Fellow, Boston 2006
Franklin Fellowship, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 2005
Trent Dames Fellow in the History of Civil Engineering, Huntington Library, 2003-04
Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities, Fellow, Cambridge University, 2003
C. P. Snow Fellowship, Harry Ransom Research Center, University of Texas, 2002
Fellowship for College and University Teachers, National Endowment for the Humanities 1992-93
Advanced Institute in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, Fellow, 1992

Community Service

Charlotte Folk Society, Board of Directors; Writer of “Ballad Broadsides” Monthly Essay.
Charlotte Observer – Guest Writer
Sunrise Assisted Living – Occasional Guest Speaker
Charlotte Area Science Network (CASN)
Carolina Actors Studio Theatre (CAST)

May 21, 2023

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