- Now researching and writing, book: Phillis Wheatley, Gender, and Grief.

- Under longer-term revision: The Time of Credulity: Childhood and Skepticism in Eighteenth-Century British Literature. I am working on the chapter on Wollstonecraft, from which I will give a paper at the annual meeting of the Society for Science, Literature, and the Arts in November 2007.

- “’The glory of his species’: “savages,” violence, and Charles Brockden Brown’s Wieland”: under consideration at Early American Literature

PUBLICATIONS Books - Editor, Writing British Infanticide: Child-Murder, Gender, and Print, 1722-1859, editor (Delaware University Press/ Associated University Presses, 2003)

Articles - “’Not thine alone, the sorrow I relate’: Phillis Wheatley, grief, and motherhood,” special issue of Eighteenth-Century Theory and Interpretation on the future of feminist theory in eighteenth-century studies, marking the 35th anniversary of the Women’s Caucus of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS), March 2009. - “’All beautiful in woe’: gender, nation, and Phillis Wheatley’s ‘Niobe,’” Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 37, in press, forthcoming March 2008. - “Beyond representation: two stages of teaching the transatlantic eighteenth-century,” in Teaching the Transatlantic, ed Jennifer Frangos and Cristobal Silva, Cambridge Scholars Press, forthcoming spring 2009. - “Introduction: Stories of Child-Murder, Stories of Print,” in Writing British Infanticide (2003), pages 13-41. - "The work of writing race: Galland, Burton, and the Arabian Nights," in Monstrous Dreams of Reason: Cultural Politics, Enlightenment Ideologies, ed. Laura Rosenthal and Mita Choudhury (Bucknell University Press/ Associated University Presses, 2001), pages 151-169. - "'A race of angels': castration and exoticism in three tales by Eliza Haywood," in The Passionate Fictions of Eliza Haywood: Essays on Her Life and Work, ed. Kirsten Saxton and Rebecca Bocchicchio (University of Kentucky Press, 2000), pages 168-193. - "'Althea must be open'd': Eliza Haywood, individualism, and reproductivity," Eighteenth-Century Women 1 (2000), pages 95-127. - "Maternity," in Beth Kowaleski-Wallace, ed., Dictionary of Feminist Literary Theory, (Garland Publications, 1996), pages 253-255.

Reviews - Marianne Novy, Reading Adoption: Family and Difference in Fiction and Drama (U of Michigan Press, 2005), Modern Philology, forthcoming, 2008. - Julie Kipp, Romanticism, Maternity, and the Body Politic (Cambridge University Press, 2003). Studies in Romanticism, Winter 2005. - Roxann Wheeler, The Complexion of Race: Categories of Difference in Eighteenth-Century British Culture. (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000). ABRO (American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Book Reviews Online), December 2000. - Srinivas Aravamudan, Tropicopolitans: Colonialism and Agency, 1688-1804 (Duke University Press, 1999). ABRO September 2000. - Toni Bowers, The Politics of Motherhood: British Writing and Culture, 1660-1760 (Cambridge UP, 1996); T.G.A. Nelson, Children, Parents, and the Rise of the Novel (University of Delaware Press, 1995); and Lynne Vallone, Disciplines of Virtue: Girls' Culture in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Yale University Press, 1995). Eighteenth-Century Studies 31, 1 (Fall 1997), pages 145-148.