Josiah Wedgwood, Creamware teapot, ca 1740 Staffordshire, UK, @ Birmingham Museum, UK

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 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).

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