Education:

PhD, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1993

MA, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1987

BA with High Distinction, Nebraska Wesleyan University, 1984

Professor of English and Humanities, Murray State University, 2006-present; Coordinator of Multicultural, Class, and Gender Studies

Byron Lecturer, School of English Studies, University of Nottingham, 2004-2005

Associate Professor, Department of English, Murray State University, 2000-2004, 2005-2006

Assistant Professor, Department of English, Murray State University, 1997-2000; Graduate Faculty since 1998

Assistant Professor, Department of English, Gardner-Webb University, 1993-97; Graduate Faculty since 1993

Teaching Assistant and Instructor, Department of English, University of Nebraska, 1987-93

• British Romantic Literature
• Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century radical and working-class writing
• Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century women poets
  
• Rhetorical theories and pedagogies
• Peace Studies

• "Luddites et Luddisme." Tumultes.  Entre résistance et domination: Figures libres ou mouvements imposés.  27 (Décembre 2006): 159-72.  (Journal article)
• "Labor and an Ethic of Variety in The Farmer’s Boy."  In Robert Bloomfield: Lyric, Class, and the Romantic Canon.  Eds. Bridget Keegan, John Goodridge, and Simon White. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2006.   70-88.  (Book article)
• Writings of the Luddites. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.  (Book)
• "The French, 'the long-wished-for Revolution,' and the Just War in Joanna Southcott."  In Rebellious Hearts: British Women Writers and the French Revolution. Eds. Kari Lokke and Adriana Craciun. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001.  135-59.  (Book article)
• "Class, Classes, and Clashes with the New Romantic Canon."  Pedagogy 1.2 (2001): 113-20.  (Journal article)
• "Industrial Gender: Manly Men and Cross-Dressers in the Luddite Movement." In Mapping Male Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century England. Eds. William Brewer, Elizabeth Dell, and Jay Losey. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2000.  29-48.  (Book article)
• "Demonology, Ethos, and Community in Cobbett and Shelley." In Romanticism, Radicalism, and the Press. Ed. Stephen C. Behrendt. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1997. 157-69.  (Book article)
• "'May they be divided never': Ethics, History, and the Rhetorical Imagination in Shelley's 'The Coliseum'." Keats-Shelley Journal 46 (1997): 125-47.  (Journal article)
• "Justification Strategies in the Writings of Joanna Southcott: Teaching Radical Women Poets in Conservative Institutions." In  Approaches to Teaching Women Poets of the British Romantic Period. Eds. Stephen C. Behrendt and Harriet Kramer Linkin. New York: MLA, 1997. 165-69.  (Book article)

• "Labor Romanticism" (critical monograph treating working-class writing and its place within the Romantic period)
• "Agricultural Protest Writing in Britain" (collection of documents written by agricultural protesters)
  
• "Selected Works of Joanna Southcott" (edition of some of Southcott's prophetic volumes)
• "An Anthology of Romantic Servant-Poets" (classroom edition of complete volumes by six domestic servants)
• "The Collected Works of Susanna Pearson" (edition of Pearson's poems, letters, memoirs, and her novel)
  

• Committee for Institutionally-Sponsored Research Grant, Murray State University, 2008-2009
• Committee for Institutionally-Sponsored Research Grant, Murray State University, 2006-2008
• Professional Development Grant, College of Humanities and Fine Arts Murray State University, 2006-2007
  
• Committee for Institutionally-Sponsored Research Grant, Murray State University, 2003-2004
• Committee for Institutionally-Sponsored Research Grant, Murray State University, 2001-2003
• Kentucky Council for International Education Grant, 2001
• Presidential Research Fellowship, Murray State University, 1998
• American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Gwin J. and Ruth Kolb Research Travel Award, 1998
• National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 1997
• Faculty Development Grant (competitive), Gardner-Webb University, 1996
• Faculty Development Grant (competitive), Gardner-Webb University, 1995

• Board of Regents Award for Teaching Excellence, Murray State University, 2008
• Who's Who Among America's Teachers, 1996, 2000
• University of Nebraska Alumni Association Graduate Teaching Award, University of Nebraska, 1993
• University of Nebraska Teaching Council/Parents Association Award, University of Nebraska, 1989, 1991, 1993
  

• Modern Language Association
• Social History Society
• North American Society for the Study of Romanticism
• Keats-Shelley Association
• American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
• Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association