I am an Associate Professor of English at Montclair State University where I teach courses on the history of the novel, British Romanticism, and British abolitionist literature and culture. My work has been published in Women’s Writing, Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, the Keats-Shelley Journal, The Atlantic, Lapham’s Quarterly and The Times Literary Supplement. I am the editor of Penguin Deluxe Editions of Pride and Prejudice and Northanger Abbey and the forthcoming Norton Library edition of Mansfield Park. I am also a specialist in diversity and inclusion in higher education and the editor of Written/Unwritten: Diversity and the Hidden Truths of Tenure (UNC Press, 2016). A member of the Bigger6 Collective, I co-edit the Oxford University Press Series Race in Nineteenth-Century Literatures and Cultures.

I was a 2020-2021 Distinguished Visiting Scholar at SUNY-Buffalo’s Center for Diversity Innovation; the 2022-2023 Anthony E. Kaye Fellow at the National Humanities Center, the 2024 recipient of the British Association for Romantic Studies Open Fellowship; and a 2024-2025 Long-Term Fellow at the Folger Shakespeare Library.