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Recent Publications

Forthcoming "Consigned to a Florida for Tropes’: Theorizing Enlightenment Allegory,” Allegory Studies: Contemporary Perspectives, ed. Vladimir Brljak (Routledge, scheduled for 2020).

2020 “Teaching with The Pilgrim’s Progress Video Game,” Adapting the Eighteenth Century: A Handbook of Pedagogies and Practices, eds. Sharon Harrow and Kirsten Saxton (University of Rochester Press): pp. 95- 108.

2020 “Why Teach Grammar, Anyway? A Long Answer to a Short Student Question,” eCampus News.

2017 "On Teaching as a PhD Student at a Research

Institution," in Reflections on Academic Lives:

Identities, Struggles, and Triumphs in Graduate

School and Beyond (Palgrave Macmillan).

2016 "Metafictional Narrative and Teaching Writing as

Process: The Case of Tristram Shandy,"

Pedagogy 16.3: 563-7.

Honorable mention for The Spencer L. Eddy Essay Prize, Rutgers University

2016 Review of Andrew O'Malley's Children's Literature,

Popular Culture, and "Robinson Crusoe (Palgrave

Macmillan, 2012), in The Looking Glass: New Perspectives on Children's Literature.

2016 "Johnson on Milton's Allegorical Persons:

Understanding Eighteenth-Century Attitudes

Toward Allegory, Literary Imagination 18.1: 1-16.

Select Presentations and Conferences

Apr. 2018 "Minds Coming Into Contact With One

Another: Using Collaborative Writing to

Teach Writing as Community-Building in the

Classroom"

Apr. 2017 "Writing Across the Aisles: The Project of

Intellectual Pluralism in the Composition

Classroom," NJCEA.

Apr. 2017 "Introducing Children's Literature with

Janeway's A Token for Children," ASECS.

Apr. 2016 "Teaching with The Pilgrim's

Progress Video Game," ASECS.

Oct. 2016 "Eighteenth-Century Satire and the Modal

Transformation of Allegory," NEASECS.

Apr. 2014 "Samuel Johnson's Allegorical Persons,"

NEMLA.

Oct. 2013 "'Bordering on Aesthetic Insanity':

Allegorizing Tolerance in Dryden's The

Hind and the Panther," NEASECS.