Research Interests

My primary research interests are in eighteenth-century print culture, the mid-eighteenth-century British novel, authorship, women in the literary marketplace, and travel writing. I am a founding member of the Department of English's MA specialization in Print Culture.

Works in Progress

I have recently published The Professionalization of Women Writers in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Cambridge UP, 2005) and The Bluestockings Reconsidered, a special number of The Huntington Library Quarterly (2003), co-edited with Nicole Pohl and now reprinted with University of California Press (2005). Work in progress includes Volume 11 (1750-54) of the Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Samuel Richardson, co-edited with Gordon Fulton, forthcoming with Cambridge University Press, a new study of The Matrix of Modern British Print Culture, 1743-1763, and a collaborative project on the Lake District and domestic tourism in Britain, 1700-1900 with Michelle Levy and Margaret Linley.

Supervision

I am currently supervising doctoral research projects on gender formation in early women's almanacs and on subscription and authorship in the eighteenth century. I am also involved in, or have been involved in, student projects on topics such as Canadian Mennonite writing, labouring-class poetry, Alexander Pope, Elizabeth Carter, the agency of the female author, and the Gothic novel.