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Diplomas / Degrees

Ph.D., Brandeis University (2004)
M.A., Claremont Graduate University (1994)
B.A., Rhode Island College (1991)

Recent Courses

Independent Study Auditioning Shakespeare
Liberal Arts Seminar Sex,Simians And China Shops: British Drama/Culture 
Milton
Shakespeare II

Teaching Specializations / Interests

Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture

Grants / Sponsored Research

2006 Research Release, Adelphi University

2005 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend

2005 Research Release, Adelphi University

2003 Joint American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies--Lewis Walpole Library Visiting Fellowship, Yale University

2003 Aubrey Williams Travel Award, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

2003 Bibliographical Society of America Research Fellowship

2003 Robert O. Preyer Travel Grant, Brandeis University

2002 Milton Hindus Memorial Endowed Dissertation Fellowship, Brandeis University

2002 Everett Helm Research Fellowship, Lilly Library, Indiana University

2002 Travel Grant, College of Arts and Sciences, Brandeis University

Other Scholarly / Artistic Work

The Cambridge Edition of Lord Chesterfield's Letters to his Son, 3 vols., forthcoming by Cambridge University Press

"The Publication History of Lord Chesterfield's Letters to his Godson," The Eighteenth Century Intelligencer (Jan. 2008), 1-16.

"The O.E.D. and the 18th Century," The Eighteenth Century Intelligencer (Sept. 2006), 31-42

"Lord Chesterfield's Letters to his Son" & "Lord Chesterfield's Letters to his Godson," entries in The Literary Encyclopedia, August 2006

"'A Lord Among Wits': Lord Chesterfield and his Reception of Johnson's Letter," Johnsonian News Letter, 56:2 (Sept. 2005), 38-42.

"Eugenia Stanhope," entry in The Literary Encyclopedia, June 2005

"Manners and Manuscripts: The Editorial Manufacture of Lord Chesterfield in Letters to his Son," Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 99, no. 1 (March 2005): 37-69.

"Some Indecorous Passages Expurgated from Lord Chesterfield's Printed Letters," Notes & Queries, 51, no. 2 (June 2004): 124-126.

Professional Activities

Invited Talks:

"Efface, Expunge, and Emend: Textual Editing and Lord Chesterfield's *Letters to his Son*," Columbia University Seminar on Eighteenth-Century European Culture, October, 2005

"Unmannerly Manners: The Reputation and Reception of Lord Chesterfield and *Letters to his Son*," Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Seminar, The Humanities Center, Harvard University, March, 2005