• B.A. English, University of Waterloo
• M.A. English, University of Toronto
• Ph.D. English, University of Toronto

My primary area of research is the eighteenth-century English novel, with a particular interest in women and the law. I have given a number of conference papers on the life and work of Sarah Chapone, a correspondent of Samuel Richardson's and the author of The Hardships of the English Laws in Relation to Wives (1735), and am preparing an edition of this work for Ashgate (UK).

My interest in the civil status of women in the period has turned my research towards women and religion; in 2011, I spent a sabbatical term as a Visiting Fellow at the McGill Centre for Research on Religion where I began my current project on the writer Frances Brooke. I am preparing a book manuscript exploring her encounter with the Indigenous and Roman Catholic worlds of Quebec during her residence there in the 1760s.

• "Further Reflections upon Marriage: Mary Astell and Sarah Chapone", in Feminist Interpretations of Mary Astell, Penn State UP, forthcoming.
• "Property" and "Frances Brooke", The Encyclopedia of British Literature 1660-1789, Wiley-Blackwell, forthcoming
• Rev. of Harm's Way: Tragic Responsibility and the Novel Form by Sandra Macpherson. 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries 19 (2012): 372-75.
• Rev. of The Gothic and Catholicism: Religion, Cultural Exchange and the Popular Novel, 1785–1829 by Maria Purves. Eighteenth-Century Fiction (January 2011) 24 (2): 393-395.
• Engendering Legitimacy: Law, Property and Early Eighteenth-Century Fiction Lewisberg: Bucknell UP, 2006.