Recent publications: articles 

•   “A Harpist Arrives at Mansfield Park: Music and the Moral Ambiguity of Mary Crawford,” in Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal (2006)
   
• “An Eyre-Less Affair?  Jasper Fforde's Seeming Elision of Jane,” in A Breath of Fresh Eyre, ed. Margarete Rubik and Elke Mettinger-Schartmann (Rodopi
  
• “'In Private, for Your Own Delight': George Eliot and Amateurism,” in Auto-Poetica: Representations of the Creative Process in 19th century British and American Fiction, ed. Darby Lewes (Lexington)
  
• “Mothers of Chick Lit?: Women Writers, Readers, and Literary History,” in Chick Lit: The New Woman’s Fiction, ed. Suzanne Ferris and Mallory Young (New York/London: Routledge, 2006)
  
• “Beyond the Joint Hire: Strategies and Options for Academic Couples,” in Modern Language Studies (spring 2005)
  
• “In Music She Had Always Used to Feel Alone in the World: Jane Austen, Solitude, and the Artistic Woman,” in Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal (2004)

Forthcoming publications

• The Brontës in the World of the Arts, coedited with Sandra Hagan (Ashgate, 2008)
  

• “‘Some of Your Accomplishments Are Not Ordinary’: Gender, Artistry, and Authorship in Jane Eyre”

•   “Shirley’s Window on Music in Victorian Culture” (co-authored with Ruth Solie)

   

• “Oprah in the Public Library” (co-authored with Virginia Wells), in The Oprah Affect: Essays on Oprah's Book Club, ed. Cecilia Konchar Farr and Jaime Harker (SUNY Press)

   

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