Introduction
As a researcher, teacher, and editor, I am interested in everything Victorian.
I recently published three essay collections, Women, Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1830s 1900s, with Beth Rodgers and Clare Gill (Edinburgh UP, 2019), as well as The Routledge Handbook to Nineteenth-Century Periodicals and Newspapers (2016) and Researching the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press: Case Studies (2017), both co-edited with Andrew King and John Morton. I have also published three monographs: New Media and the Rise of the Popular Woman Writer, 1832 60 (Edinburgh University Press, 2021); Literary Celebrity, Gender, and Victorian Authorship, 1850 1914 (University of Delaware Press, 2011); and First-Person Anonymous: Women Writers and Victorian Print Media, 1830-70 (Ashgate-Routledge, 2004);
Other current research and teaching interests include Victorian women writers, literary copyright, nineteenth-century journalism, mass-market poetry, media studies, Eliza Cook, and the Brontës. I am currently working on three books: Eliza Cook: Poet of the People, funded by a 2021 National Endowment for the Humanities summer stipend, and the 2021-24 UST University Scholars program; British Writers, Popular Literature, and New Media Innovation, 1820 45 (edited essay collection under contract with Edinburgh University Press); and Shopping as Comedy: A Victorian Scrapbook (facsimile edition under contract with Routledge).