Specialization: 19th-Century Irish and British Literature

Interests: Irish Studies, 18th century Irish and British Lit.

Dissertation: Factory of Famine:Political Narratives and the Cultivation of Sympathy in the United Kingdom, 1800-1870

Recent Publications:

"Ellen O'Leary." Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 240: Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Women Poets. Detroit: Gale Group, 2001.

Major Advisor: Margaret Higonnet