Research Interests

British Literature

Bibliography, Textual Criticism, and Editing

History of the Book and Print Culture

Printing History

Visual Culture

Scholarly Work

Editions under Contract

Victims of Society (1837) by Marguerite Farmer Power Gardiner, Countess of Blessington, Vol. 4 in Silver Fork Novels, 1826-1841, for Pickering and Chatto, London. Forthcoming 2005.

Henrietta Temple (1837) by Benjamin Disraeli, Vol. 5 in "The Early Novels of Benjamin Disraeli," Pickering and Chatto, London. In press & to be published, July 2004.

Venetia (1836) by Benjamin Disraeli, Vol. 6 in "The Early Novels of Benjamin Disraeli," Pickering and Chatto, London. In press & to be published, July 2004.

Articles and Essays

"'Evoking Byron': the manuscript and first edition of Benjamin Disraeli's Venetia (1837)." For Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America Forthcoming December 2004. Invited and Peer-reviewed.

"'Formed with Curious Skill': Blessington's Negotiation of the 'Poetess' in Flowers of Loveliness." For Poetess' Poetics: A special issue of Romanticism-On-the-Net. Eds. Annie Finch and Laura Mandell. Forthcoming January 2004. 30 pages. Peer-reviewed.

"Women Speaking, Women Writing: Identity and Voice in an Age of Revolution." Eighteenth Century Studies. 36.6 (Spring 2003):449-55. Invited.

"Marguerite, Countess of Blessington, and L. E. L. (Letitia E. Landon): Evidence of a Friendship." ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews 16.2 (Spring 2003): 27-32. Peer-reviewed.

"Mrs. Baillie's Testicles: Byron's Revision of De Monfort in Manfred" Recent Perspectives on European Romanticism. Ed. Larry Peer. Mellen Studies in Literature/Romantic Reassessment, Vol. 158. Lewiston: Mellen P, 2003: 105-38. ISBN: 0-7734-6984-2. Peer-reviewed.

"Delectable' Books for 'Delicate' Readers: the 1830s Giftbook Market, Ackermann and Co, and the Countess of Blessington." Kentucky Philological Review March 2002: 20-26. Peer-reviewed.

"'Belonging to the Other Powers': Literary Intertexts, Astarte, and Byron's New World-View," Kentucky Philological Review 8 (March 1993): 21-28. Peer-reviewed.

Short Essays and Reviews

"Visual Art and Visual Artists: Great Britain-United States." Encyclopedia of Anglo-American Relations. Ed. William Kauffman. London: ABC-Clio, Forthcoming 2004.

"Marguerite Power Farmer Gardiner, Countess of Blessington" Biographical Entry for British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries database. Alexander Street Press, Forthcoming 2004.

Review of William J. P. Neish's The Speaking Eye-Byron's Aberdeen, People, Places, and a Poem. East Sussex: Book Guild Ltd, 2001. Romantic Circles Reviews, May 2003.

Review of Zachary Leader's Revision and Romantic Authorship. American Society for Eighteenth-century Studies Book Reviews Online. 2001.

"Countess of Blessington: a bio-bibliographical essay." Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers. Ed. Abigail Burnham Bloom. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000.

Research Fellowships and Awards

New Scholar Award. Bibliographical Society of America, 2004

Research Fellow. Bibliographical Society of America, 2003
Funded Project: "Editing Benjamin Disraeli's early novels, Henrietta Temple (1836) and Venetia (1837).

James Davis Scholar. University of Virginia's Rare Book School, June 2003.
Funded Study:"Teaching the History of the Book," under Terry Belanger and Daniel Traister.

Research Fellow. Folger Shakespeare Library. Washington D. C., Summer 2001.
Funded Project: An Appetite for Shakespeare: Byron's Consumption of the Bard in Art and Literature, 1788-1818.

Guest Editor

A Special Issue of CEA Critic on Children's and Adolescent Literature. Co-edited. 64.4 (Fall 2002).

Guest Curator

"John Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery, 1789-1805: an exhibit of paintings and primary documents" At Folger Shakespeare Library, Forthcoming Fall 2007.

Scholarly Resource

Editor and Web-Site Developer, "Byron Chronology" Romantic Circles: Scholarly Resources A peer-reviewed collection of resources on Romanticism and Romantic writers.

Under Review

"Marketing Nationalism and Gender in the mid-nineteenth century book trade: the case of Marguerite, Countess of Blessington's Gems of Beauty / L'Ecrin" at Women's Writing

Proposal for an edited collection of essays, Teaching Bibliography, Textual Criticism, and Book History at Cambridge U P

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