I teach courses on Restoration, eighteenth-century, and Romantic British literature. I have a particular interest in the history and theory of the novel, gothic literature, the history of science, medicine, and technology and its intersections with literary culture, material culture, and the history of sexuality. My book,
Novel Machines: Technology and Narrative Form in Enlightenment Britain (Oxford UP, 2017), shows how eighteenth-century authors adapted the form of the novel to address the moral, social, and medical concerns raised by the new prominence of machines in Britain's Industrial Enlightenment. I am now at work on two new projects: one is about iconoclastic violence in the 1790s and the emergence of modern critique; the other is about the rise of design consciousness and the aesthetics of whimsy in eighteenth-century literary and material culture.
I teach courses on Restoration, eighteenth-century, and Romantic British literature. I have a particular interest in the history and theory of the novel, gothic literature, the history of science, medicine, and technology and its intersections with literary culture, material culture, and the history of sexuality. My book, Novel Machines: Technology and Narrative Form in Enlightenment Britain (Oxford UP, 2017), shows how eighteenth-century authors adapted the form of the novel to address the moral, social, and medical concerns raised by the new prominence of machines in Britain's Industrial Enlightenment. I am now at work on two new projects: one is about iconoclastic violence in the 1790s and the emergence of modern critique; the other is about the rise of design consciousness and the aesthetics of whimsy in eighteenth-century literary and material culture.
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