Publications
This flash essay contemplates the absence of critical foundational work in queer theory and queer methodologies within the study of Romanticism. Why did queer studies pass us by? Can we reinvigorate a Queer Romanticism?
Journal Articles
William Wordsworth exemplifies the Romantic poet: alone in nature, relishing solitude and his own mind. But this persistent image is already being dismantled, as critics reveal Wordsworth composing actively with friends and family. This essay overturns the "egotistical sublime" by turning from biography to art, where, in Lyrical Ballads, his subjects are far from individual, but, rather, interdependently intertwined with others—and not just his own sister Dorothy.
Book Reviews
Queer Victorian Families: Curious Relations in Literature
Edited by Duc Dau and Shale Preston
Routledge, 2015
Romanticism and Childhood: The Infantilization of British Literary Culture
By Ann Wierda Rowland
Cambridge, 2012
Academic Web Writing
September 10, 2017
Commentary on John Keats' words to his younger sister, Fanny, in a letter written on 10 Sept 1817.
December 18, 2016
Discussion of the enduring legacy of Jane Austen's romantic comedy in line with rhetoric surrounding same-sex marriage.
December 1, 2015
Thoughts on teaching Wollstonecraft's feminism with contemporary essays on workplace equality and motherhood.
November 11, 2015
Exploration of student projects connecting the sublime in Romantic poetry with both contemporary and 18th/19th-century art.
Also on the NASSR Graduate Caucus Blog* . . .
"Reading Romanticism Today (A Pedagogical Experiment)"
"Studies in Romanticism: An Assistant's Perspective"
"Will the Real Mr. Darcy Please Stand Up?"
"Proposing a Special Session for MLA"
November 19, 2014
Highlights from Danny Boyle and Nick Dear's London stage production.
March 5, 2015
Reflections on the YouTube series The Lizzie Bennet Diaries and its depiction of three modern sisters' infighting and intimacies.
* Please note that the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism's Graduate Student Caucus Blog has migrated platforms, and therefore image links and formatting have been disrupted since the original postings were produced.