She specializes in English literature of the ‘long’ eighteenth century (1660-1800), with an emphasis on issues of gender, religion, and nationalism. She received her PhD from the University of Notre Dame in 2009. Her article ‘Porn, Popery, Mahometanism, and the Rise of the Novel: Responses to the London Earthquakes of 1750’ is forthcoming in Volume 2 of Religion in the Age of Enlightenment (AMS Press, 2010). [Read article]