Office: Keezell 405

Spring 2024 Office Hours:
Wednesday, 9:30am - 12:30pm online 

Specialization: 
Nineteenth-century British literature, Victorian fiction, autobiography, narrative theory, theory of the novel

Education:
Ph.D., English and Comparative Literature, Washington University in St. Louis
M.A., Comparative Literature, Washington University in St. Louis
B.A., English and Hispanic Studies, The College of William and Mary

Publications

Book:

Fictional Selves: Creating Identity in the Victorian Fictional Autobiography. University of Missouri. 2018.

Journal/Article/Essay:

"'It is Enough': Caring Through the Gap." Narrative, 31.3 (October 2023): pp. 235-254. URL: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/30/article/908400

Heidi L. Pennington: 19 Cents Q&A Interview. Blog of the Nineteenth Century Studies Association, April 2023. 

“Interpreting the Labor and Legacy of the Independent Literary Typist; or, The Typing of Ethel Kate Dickens.” Victorian Literature and Culture (journal of Cambridge UP). 50.2 (summer 2022): 385-416.

“Ethel Kate Dickens.” Biographical essay in the “Featured New Women” column and “New Women Who’s Who Gallery” of The Latchkey: Journal of New Woman Studies. Issue X, 2019. URL: http://www.thelatchkey.org/Latchkey10/featured10.htm#EKD

“Life, Death, and Identity in The Lifted Veil: George Eliot’s Experiments in First-Person Fiction” in Critical Insights: George Eliot, Ed. Katie Peel. Ipswich, MA: Salem Press. 2016.

"How Do You Solve a Problem Like Esther? Reading Bleak House as Fictional Autobiography.” Victorians Institute Journal 41 (2013).

“‘But why should readers be made to feel…’: Repulsing Readerly Sympathy for Ethical Ends in the Victorian Realist Novel.” Journal of Philosophy: A Cross-Disciplinary Inquiry 7.19 (Fall 2013).

“Reading Narrative Truth through the Absence of Narrative Awareness in Wilkomirski’s Fragments.” a/b: Auto/Biography Studies 28.1 (Summer 2013).