Education:
Ph.D., UC Davis, 2001,
Comparative Literature, Female Acts of Violence: French
Revolutionary Theater in British and German Romantic Drama;
Intermed. Cert. in Latin (das Latinum), December 1995, Georg
August Universität, Göttingen, Germany; B.A., UCSD, March
1994, German Literature (magna cum laude)
Recent research:
“Boadicea Onstage
before 1800, a Theatrical and Colonial History,” forthcoming in Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
(Summer 2009)
“Edmund Eyre’s The
Maid of Normandy; or, Charlotte Corday in Anglo-Irish Docudrama” in
Comparative
Drama, vol. 40.3 (Fall 2006): 169-90.
“A Tragic Farce: Revolutionary Women in Elizabeth Inchbald’s The
Massacre and European Drama,” European Romantic Review,
vol. 17.3 (July 2006): 275-88.
“Staging Rousseau’s Republic: French Revolutionary Festivals and Olympe
de Gouges” in The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation,
vol. 43.3 (Fall 2003): 268-85. Rpt. in Literature Criticism from
1400 to 1800, vol. 127 (New York: Thomson Gale, Aug. 2006), 79-89.