Essays and Publications

‘Just Do the Next Right Thing’: Hope, Character, and Moral Action in Frozen II.” Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers (ALSCW), Columbus, OH, November 2025.

A Self in Woolf’s Clothing: The Author from the Inside Out in A Room of One’s Own.” ALSCW, Washington, DC, October 2024.

Throwing Shade at Netherfield: Helping Students Understand Bad Manners in Pride and Prejudice.” ALSCW, Houston, TX, October 2023.

Good Girls: Female Agency and Convention in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel.” PhD diss. Princeton University, 2019.

Peas to Cranford: Consuming Food and the Novel.” Victorians Institute, Asheville, NC, November 2018. Winner of the Patrick Scott Award for Best Graduate Conference Paper

The Flat Heroine: Flat Character and Agency in Miss Marjoribanks.” Victorian Literature and Culture, 47, no. 4 (2019): 1-31.

Secret Agents: Agency without Responsibility in The Mysteries of Udolpho.” Studies in Romanticism, 57, no. 4 (2018): 539-56.

The Problem with the China: Food and Gender in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility and Mansfield Park.The Sigma Tau Delta Review 10 (2013): 66-75.

No Triumph without Loss: Problems of Intercultural Marriage in Tolkien’s Works.” Tolkien Studies: An Annual Review 10 (2013): 69-87.