Educational Background
- B.A., Tel Aviv University, 1996
- M.A., Princeton University, 2002
- Ph.D., Princeton University, 2006
My research and teaching interests include the 18th- and 19th-century novel, Romantic poetry, Irish and Scottish literature, the Scottish Enlightenment, nationalism in literature, and postcolonial theory. I am currently working on a manuscript on the centrality of the legal fiction of inheritance for the rise of the Scottish and Irish novel of the Romantic period, entitled Fiction of Inheritance: The Case of the British Novel, 1798-1832.
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Publications
Articles:
"Entailing the Nation: Inheritance and History in Walter Scott's The Antiquary." Studies in Romanticism (forthcoming).
"'Homage to the empty armour': Maria Edgeworth's Harrington and the Pathology of National Heritage.” ELH 75 (Summer 2008): 439-69.
"Displaying Ireland: Lady Morgan and the Politics of Spectacular Antiquarianism," Eire-Ireland 37 (2002): 169-87.
Review:
Duncan, Ian. Scott's Shadow: The Novel in Romantic Edinburgh. Studies in the Novel 41.4 (Winter 2009): 490-492.
Work in Progress:
Book manuscript: Fiction of Inheritance: The Case of the British Novel, 1798-1832.
"Tending to the (National) Economy: Walter Scott's The Antiquary and 'that happy commerce' of the Enlightenment."
"According to Whose Rules of Engagement?: Scott, Wordsworth, and the Question of Literary Canon"
