I am the author
of three books on British literature and culture.
The first, Desire and Contradiction, was published in
the Cultural Politics series with Manchester University Press
in 1990. The second, British
Imperial Literature 1870-1940: Writing and the Administration
of Empire, was published by Cambridge
University Press in 1998. My most recently published book, The
Imagination of Class: Masculinity and the Victorian Urban Poor, a
study of Victorian representations of urban poverty, appeared in the spring of 2006. It was co-authored with
Roger B. Henkle. I am currently at work on a study of character and competition in the nineteenth century. It is tentatively entitled The Natural and Social History of Pluck: The Victorian Discourse on Character and Competition . Over the years, I have published on 19th and 20th century
fiction, travel writing, colonial discourse, and the literature of urban investigation.
At ASU,
where I have been located since 1996, I have taught British
fiction and poetry as well as the literary surveys and a graduate
course in research methods and critical methodology. Recently,
I have taught courses in Victorian
Masculinities, Aestheticism
and the Decadence, Victorian
Sexuality, Imagining
Class in the Victorian Age, Darwin in the Nineteenth Century, and Victorians
and the Problem of Character. In the Fall of 2002, I taught
a course called "Victorian
Sensations" which included a one-credit technology
lab. For a more complete list of my teaching interests, see
my cv.
I served as Chair of the English
Department from 2000 to 2002 and became Associate Dean
for Academic Programs in the College
of Liberal Arts and Sciences in 2002 and Divisional Dean of Student and Academic Programs in 2004. I also served as Founding Director of the CLAS Learning Communities Institute from 2003 to 2009. In July 2007 I returned to fulltime work on the English faculty. |