CURRENT CURRICULUM VITAE
Curriculum Vitae updated June 8, 2023.
PEER-REVIEWED BOOK AND ARTICLE
Godless Fictions in the Eighteenth Century: A Literary History of Atheism. Cambridge University Press, 2020.
“Antislavery Literature and the Decline of Hell.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 53.4 (Summer 2020): 571–87.
NON-PEER-REVIEWED CHAPTERS, ESSAYS, INTERVIEWS, AND BOOK REVIEWS
“What is the historical role of atheism in literature and the arts?” in Atheism in 5 Minutes. Ed. Teemu Taira. Sheffield, UK: Equinox Publishing, 2022.
Review of Rethinking the Secular Origins of the Novel: The Bible in English Fiction 1678–1767 by Kevin Seidel (Cambridge University Press, 2021), in Studies in the Novel 53.4 (Winter 2021): 435–438.
“Godless Fictions in the Eighteenth Century.” Interview for the New Books Network. Hosted by Carrie Lynn Evans. June 28, 2021. https://newbooksnetwork.com/godless-fictions-in-the-eighteenth-century.
“Race and Religious Joy.” The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, 61 (Summer 2020). Online special issue on “Scholarship in a Time of Crisis.” https://ecti.english.illinois.edu/cfp.
“Imagining Atheism.” 1584: Academic Perspectives from Cambridge University Press. Cambridge University Press, 2020. http://www.cambridgeblog.org/2020/07/imagining-atheism/.
“Unbelief and Sympathy in Shelley and Hogg's Letters to Ralph Wedgwood.” Keats-Shelley Journal 65 (2016): 41–52.
“Untimely Old Age and Deformity in Sarah Scott's Millenium Hall.” Eighteenth-Century Fiction 27.2 (Winter 2014–2015): 229–56.
“Posthumous Presence in Richardson's Clarissa.” SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 53.3 (Summer 2013): 601–21.