I am a scholar of nineteenth-century British literature and culture, masculinity, and critical theory. As a faculty member at Lehigh University, I am a Professor of English and hold appointments in Film and Documentary Studies and the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Programs.

My scholarship is focused in three main areas: Jane Austen, Masculinity Studies, and Critical Theory. In recent years, I have also engaged in textual editing, Anthropocene Studies, and Health Humanities as part of my work in the Mothers of Sierra Leone Global Social Impact Fellowship.

I am the author of Disciplining Love: Austen and the Modern Man (The Ohio State University Press: 2007) and Patriarchy’s Creative Resilience: Late Victorian Speculative Fiction (Routledge: 2024). I have edited and introduced Jane Austen and Masculinity (Bucknell University Press: 2017, 2024) and Jane Austen and Critical Theory (Routeldge: 2021). With Sarita Jayanty Mizin, I have also co-edited and introduced the first critical edition of William Delisle Hay’s The Doom of the Great City (West Virginia University Press: 2025) and a new edition of Richard Jefferies’s After London; Or, Wild England (Clemson University Press, 2024).

I am currently engaged in a multi-year public humanities research project, Jane Austen and the Future of the Humanities, that leverages that enduring popularity of Austen to engage diverse public audiences about the efficacy of the humanities. This project involves a podcast, a documentary film, and a public-facing monograph.