Education
Ph.D. (2009), English (Victorian Gothic), Fordham University
M.A. (2000), English, Special Concentration in Irish Literature & Culture, Boston College
B.A. (1997), English & Philosophy, University of Texas at San Antonio
San Antonio College, Alamo Community College District (1993-1995) Publications
“Class, Crime, and Cannibalism; or, the Demon Barber as Bourgeois Bogeyman,” Journal of Working-Class Studies
Representation in Steven Universe, Palgrave
“This Land was Made for You and Me: The Rise of the Oppressed in Land of the Dead,” Journal of Popular Culture.
“The Gothic,” “The Castle of Otranto,” and “A Christmas Carol” [signed entries] in Ghosts in Popular Culture and Legend. Ed. June Michele Pulliam and Anthony J. Fonseca. Greenwood/ ABC-CLIO, 2016.
“Mass Production and the Spread of Information in Dracula: ‘Proofs of so wild a story.’” English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920 52: 4 (2009): 440-57.
“Mary Elizabeth Coleridge,” “Bell’s Life in London,” “The Social-Democrat” [signed entries] in Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism. Ed. Laurel Brake and Marysa Demoor. British Library/ Academia Press, 2008.
“‘No nation wanted it so much:’ Mythic Insanity in the Development of an Irish Literature.” The Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Harvard Celtic Colloquium. Harvard UP, 2007, pp. 385-95.
“Where There’s a Rime, Is There a Reason? Defining the Personae in Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” The Coleridge Bulletin (2002-2003): 63-8. Memberships
Modern Language Association
Popular Culture Association
International Gothic Association
Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association
Professional Staff Congress, City University of New York