Sharing research at Lehigh University
My scholarly research focuses around three main areas:
- Jane Austen
- Masculinity Studies
- Critical Theory
I have recently engaged in textual editing, Anthropocene Studies, and Health Humanities. Most recently, I have been interested in the creative resilience of patriarchy to sustain white male supremacy and the ways in which patriarchy has leveraged different tools or strategies to restrict dynamic creative energies and collaborations that could threaten its continuity.
Patriarchy’s Creative Resilience (Routledge, 2024)
I am primarily a scholar of nineteenth-century British Literature and Culture, and throughout my career, I have explored critical questions of national, racial, and gendered identity through the lenses of literary, photographic, and filmic representations. I am specifically interested in the cultural work of literary and visual texts: i.e. what these texts do and how they interact with our worlds. I have written extensively on the works of Jane Austen, and I continue to find great value in her stories, especially for the future of the humanities in and out of the university.