Research and Teaching Interests
Adaptation Studies; Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture; Media Studies; Gender Studies; Theater History; Performance Studies; Cultural History; Cultural Studies; Comparative Literature and Media; Gender, Sexuality, Race, and Class in Literature and Culture; Visual Culture; Transmedia Storytelling and Convergence Culture; The Gothic Tradition; Digital Humanities and Pedagogy; Public Humanities; Career Development and Professionalization in the Arts and Humanities; Alternative Careers for Humanities Scholars
Books and Special Issues
(Book manuscript in progress)
The Bride of Frankenstein: A Transmedia Cultural History of Her Own.
Available
The Bride of Frankenstein: A Transmedia Cultural History of Her Own.
Available
- Transmedia Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century. Ohio State University Press, 2020.
- Adaptation Before Cinema: Literary & Visual Convergence from Antiquity through the 19th Century. Palgrave 2023. Co-edited with Glenn Jellenik.
- (co-edited with Lindsey Eckert; co-written Introduction)
Romanticism and Technology, a special issue of the Romantic Circles Pedagogy Commons (2017).
Transmedia Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century
(Ohio State University Press 2020)
(Ohio State University Press 2020)
Existing scholarship on the nineteenth-century novel in adaptation regularly misses two important components—(1) a historical awareness of novels’ nineteenth-century stage histories; and (2) a historical understanding of adaptation as a popular and profitable cultural practice. These omissions result in studies that are either too focused on film adaptations, too invested in individual authors or single novels, or a combination of the two, promoting (perhaps unintentionally) the idea that specific novels or authors are particularly special or extraordinary in their ability to draw in new audiences.
Transmedia Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century demonstrates the magnitude of adaptation’s presence in nineteenth-century England and its influence on popular culture, literary history, cultural literacy, and the modern entertainment industry. More than a mere portrait, the book is a mural that includes authors, literature, plays, fine art, chapbooks, illustrated gift books, and souvenirs. Equally important economic imperatives and historical contexts provide a thorough understanding of the period’s fascination with adaptation.
Transmedia Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century demonstrates the magnitude of adaptation’s presence in nineteenth-century England and its influence on popular culture, literary history, cultural literacy, and the modern entertainment industry. More than a mere portrait, the book is a mural that includes authors, literature, plays, fine art, chapbooks, illustrated gift books, and souvenirs. Equally important economic imperatives and historical contexts provide a thorough understanding of the period’s fascination with adaptation.