Publications

Monograph

Defending Privilege: Rights, Status, and Legal Peril in the British Novel, Johns Hopkins University Press (2020)

Peer-Reviewed Articles

“ ‘Willing Victims’?: Disavowed Consent and Formal Deviance in Fielding’s Amelia,” The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 58: 4 (Winter 2017)

“Tendering Judgment?: Vying Prototypes of ‘Judicial Sensibility’ in Later Eighteenth-Century British Narratives of Criminal Justice,” Eighteenth-Century Studies 48:3 (Spring 2015)

“ ‘A More Exact Purity’: Legal Authority and Conspicuous Amalgamation in Eighteenth-Century English Law Guides and the Oxford Law Lectures of Sir Robert Chambers and Samuel Johnson,” The University of Toronto Quarterly 82:4 (Fall 2013)

“Opening the Phosphoric ‘Envelope’: Scientific Appraisal, Domestic Spectacle, and (Un)‘Reasonable Creatures’ in Edgeworth’s Belinda,” Eighteenth-Century Fiction 24:3 (2012)

Chapters in Edited Collections

“Copping an Attitude: Slang and the Neglected Racial History of Fear and Resentment toward Law Enforcement and Legal Authority,” solicited essay for The Edward Elgar Research Handbook on Law and Emotion, eds. Kathryn Temple, Susan Bandes, Jody Lyneé Madeira, and Emily Kidd (2021)

“Defiance of Authority and the Visionary Power of Negation in The Mysterious Mother,” solicited essay for edited volume on Horace Walpole for the Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History, Yale University Press, ed. Cynthia Roman and Jill Campbell (accepted)

Reference Articles

“Arley” and “Forman,” solicited for The Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel, 1660-1820, ed. April London. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (in press as of February 2020)

Other Articles

Interview with Suvir Kaul for ASECS 50th Anniversary issue of Eighteenth-Century Studies (Fall 2019) (solicited by editor)

“Alt-Right Jane Austen,” The Chronicle of Higher Education (March 2017)

Reviews

Review of “Jane Austen in Context” [online resource, “a selection of over thirty critical articles and chapters], Broadview Press, 2019. Eighteenth-Century Studies (Winter 2020)