She is the author of "Dangerous Exchange: Fairy Footsteps, Goblin Economies, and The Old Curiosity Shop (Dickens Studies Annual 35 [2005]) and "Dickens's Little Red Riding Hood and Other Waterside Characters" (SEL: Studies in English Literature [forthcoming]). She is currently at work on a book project titled "Obscure Dread and Intense Desire": Folklore, Literature, and the Victorians, which explores the fraught relationship between nineteenth-century folklore study and literary composition. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />