My research and graduate teaching currently focus are on mid-19th-century Victorian fiction.

I also retain a strong interest in the poetry of Emily Dickinson, on whom I wrote my PhD dissertation. My current research is on the 3 Bronte sisters and Elizabeth Gaskell.

• Faculty of Arts Teaching Scholar Award (2008-9).
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Standard Research Grant (1993-97).

Graduate supervision in the area of Victorian literature and culture (particularly mid-century).

• “The 1857 Financial Crisis and the Suspension of the 1844 Bank Act.”BRANCH: Britain, Representation and Nineteenth-Century History. Ed. Dino Franco Felluga. [Forthcoming]
• “Disease, Hospitality, and Forgiveness in Charlotte Yonge's The Heir of Redclyffe.” Victorians: A Journal of Literature and Culture. 123 (Spring 2013):  83-95.
• “Business and Terror in Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities.” Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies. 2. 2012. 1-16
• “Domestic History and the Idea of the Nation in Charlotte Yonge’s The Heir of Redclyffe.”  Antifeminism and the Victorian Novel: Rereading Nineteenth-Century Women Writers.  Ed. Tamara Silvia Wagner.  Amherst: Cambria Press, 2009.  77-96.
• “Fantasies of National Identification in Villette.” Studies in English Literature, 15-1900. 49.4 (Autumn 2009): 925-44.