MVSA President, 2017-2019 | MVSA Executive Secretary, 2014-2015
MVSA Executive Board, 2013-2023
Associate Professor of English, University of Detroit Mercy
Research Interests: Victorian fiction and poetry; literature and ethics; narrative empathy; psychology of reading
Selected Publications: “How Narrative Relationships Overcome Empathic Biases: Elizabeth Gaskell’s Empathy Across Social Difference” (Poetics Today, 2012); “The Paradox of Fiction and the Ethics of Empathy: Reconceiving Dickens’s Realism” (Narrative, 2008)
Midwest Victorian Studies Association 