Contact: west2@hawaii.edu
Publications
Rewriting the Mechanic: Text, Technology, and the Body in the Eighteenth Century, Bucknell University Press, 2026
“Technology, Temporality, and Queer Form in Horace Walpole’s Gothic.” British Literature and Technology, 1600-1830. Ed. Kristin M. Girten and Aaron R. Hanlon. Bucknell University Press, 2023
“Technologies of Epistolarity and Embodiment in John Cleland’s Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure.” The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 60, no. 4 (Winter 2019)
“‘Most grateful deceptions of the sight’: Optical Technologies in Restoration England.” Early Modern Spectatorship: Interpreting English Culture, 1500-1780. Ed. Ronald Huebert and David McNeil. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2019
“Animal Things, Human Language, and Children’s Education.” Eighteenth-Century Fiction 31, no. 1 (Fall 2018)
“Labor and the Literary Technologies of Mechanization in the British Cotton Industry.” Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 17, no. 4 (Fall 2017)
Areas of Interest
Eighteenth-century literature, material culture and textual materiality, gender and sexuality studies, history of science and technology, children’s literature and childhood, disability studies
Courses
Spring Semester 2026
- ENG-332: Restoration/18th-C British Literature
- ENG-440: Single Author: Aphra Behn
Spring Semester 2025
- ENG-320: Intro to English Studies
- ENG-332: Restoration/18th-C British Literature
Fall Semester 2024
- ENG-320: Intro to English Studies
- ENG-382: Gender, Sexuality & Literature
Fall Semester 2025
- ENG-320: Introduction to English Studies
- ENG-730X: Literature & History