Education

Harvard University; Ph.D. and A.M.
University of California, Santa Barbara, B.A.

Publications

Informal Empire: Mexico and Central America in Victorian Culture , forthcoming from University of Minnesota Press , 2004 

Connecting Continents: Britain and Latin America, 1780-1900 . Co-edited with Ross G. Forman, forthcoming from Rodopi (Amsterdam and New York, 2004)

“Agencies of the Letter: The British Museum, the Foreign Office, and the Ruins of Central America,” forthcoming in Victorian Studies (Fall 2004)

“William Bullock: (1773-1849):  Traveler and Museum Curator,” forthcoming in The Human Tradition in the Atlantic World , ed. Karen Racine and Beatriz Gallotti Mamigonian (Wilmington: Scholarly Resource Books , 2004).

“Exhibiting Degeneracy: The Aztec Children and the Ruins of Race,” Victorian Review 29.2 (2003): 40-63.

“Cold Print: Professing Authorship in Trollope's An Autobiography ,” Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 25.4 (Fall 2002): 569-593.

“Annihilating the Distance: Panoramas and the Conquest of Mexico, 1822-1848,” Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture 35.1 (Spring 2002): 25-54.

“Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida, by Victor Martinez,” in Literature and its Times: Supplement . 2 vols. (Farmington Hills: Gale , 2003) 2: 367-77.

“Days of Obligation: An Argument with my Mexican Father, by Richard Rodriguez.” Latin American Literature and its Times. World Literature and its Times 1 (Farmington Hills: Gale , 1999) 85-94.

Courses Taught:

Undergraduate
English 2050, Freshman Honors English
English 3100: Introduction to Literary Studies
English 3120, English Literature from 1700
English 5080: Topics in Cross-Disciplinary Literature and Culture (Literature and Geography)
English 5250, Nineteenth-century British Literature
English 5090, Theorizing Museums
English 5270, Victorian Literature
English 5290, The Literature of Travel
English 5460, Latino/a Literature

Graduate
English 7260, Race and Victorian Literature
English 7260, Victorian Travelers
English 7340, New World Encounters

Administrative Appointments

Director of English Department Honors

Grants, Awards and Fellowships

Andrew E. Mellon Fellowship, John Carter Brown Library (1999-2000)