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I received my PhD in English Literature from Queen's University at Kingston in 1988, my MA from the University of Toronto in 1984, and my BA from the University of Waterloo in 1983. Prior to joining Laurier I taught at St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia for twenty-five years, and was Dean of Arts there from 2010 to 2015.
The main focus of my research is the fiction of Thomas Hardy. I am currently the General Editor of the Cambridge University Press Edition of the Novels and Stories of Thomas Hardy. I have also published on other Victorian authors such as Charlotte and Emily Bronte, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, and Wilkie Collins.
Monographs
- Thomas Hardy, Sensationalism, and the Melodramatic Mode. Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Editions
- Desperate Remedies. Thomas Hardy. Edited with Introduction, Notes, and Full Textual Apparatus. Cambridge University Press. In Press.
- Jane Eyre. Charlotte Brontë. Edited with Introduction, Notes, and Appendices. Broadview Literary Texts Series, Broadview Press, 1999.
- Aurora Floyd. Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Co-Edited with Lisa Surridge with Introduction, Notes, and Appendices. Broadview Literary Texts Series, Broadview Press, 1998.
- The Trumpet-Major. Thomas Hardy. Edited with Introduction and Notes. Oxford World’s Classics Series, Oxford University Press, 1991. Second imprint 1998.
Chapters in Books
- “Manful Sensations: Domesticity, Affect, and Class Status Anxiety in East Lynne and Aurora Floyd.” The Victorian Novel and Masculinity. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. 88-115.
- “Queering the Sensation Novel.” The Cambridge Companion to Sensation Fiction. Cambridge UP, 2013. 70-84.
- “‘Going in a little for the subjective’: Textual and Moral Performance in The Doctor’s Wife.” A Companion to Sensation Fiction. Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. 147-159.
- “Hardy and Victorian Popular Culture: Performing Modernity in Music Hall and Melodrama.” The Ashgate Research Companion to Thomas Hardy. Ashgate, 2010. 71-86.
- “‘Genres are not to be mixed…I will not mix them’: Discourse, Ideology, and Generic Hybridity in Hardy’s Fiction.” A Companion to Thomas Hardy. Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. 102-116.
- “‘Judged by a Purely Literary Standard’: Sensation fiction, Horizons of Expectation, and the Generic Construction of Victorian Realism.” Victorian Sensations: Essays on a Scandalous Genre. Ohio State UP, 2006. 15-28.
- “The Mark of the Brotherhood: Homosexual Panic and the Foreign Other in Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White.” Straight Writ Queer: Non-Normative Expressions of Heterosexuality in Literature. McFarland, 2006. 95-108.
- “Romancing the Text: Genre, Indeterminacy, and Televising Tess of the d’Urbervilles.” Thomas Hardy on Screen. Cambridge UP, 2005. 170-182.
- “Hardy and his Readers.” Palgrave Advances in Thomas Hardy Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. 38-74.
- “‘The thing must be male, we suppose’: Erotic Triangles and Masculine Identity in Tess of the d’Urbervilles and Melville’s Billy Budd.” Thomas Hardy: Texts and Contexts. Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. 87-109.
- “Robert Audley’s Secret: Male Homosocial Desire and ‘Going Straight’ in Lady Audley’s Secret.” Straight with a Twist: Queer Theory and the Subject of Heterosexuality. U of Illinois P, 2000. 107-121.
Articles in Journals (Refereed)
- “Fetishism and the Pathology of Class Status in ‘Barbara of the House of Grebe,’” The Hardy Review 9 (2007): 65-80.
- “Collaboration or Compromise? – From Screenplay to Screen in the Ian Sharp Production of Tess of the d’Urbervilles,” The Hardy Review 7 (2005): 65-78.
- “The Mark of the Brotherhood: The Foreign Other and Homosexual Panic in The Woman in White,” English Studies in Canada 28.4 (December 2002): 603-627. Reprinted in Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, 272 (New York: Gale, 2013): 194-203.
- “Strange Attractors on the Yorkshire Moors: Chaos Theory and Wuthering Heights,” Victorian Newsletter 92 (Fall 1997): 15-21.
- “Robert Audley’s Secrete: Male Homosocial Desire in Lady Audley’s Secret,” Studies in the Novel 4 (Winter 1995): 48-66.
- “‘Work it Out for Yourself’: Language and Fictional Form in Stevie Smith’s Novel on Yellow Paper,” Dalhousie Review 71 (Spring 1991): 26-37.
- “The Anti-Comedy of The Trumpet-Major,” Victorian Newsletter 77 (Spring 1990): 8-13.
- “Choice of Copy-Text and Treatment of Accidentals in Thomas Hardy’s The Trumpet-Major,” The Library, Sixth Series, 2 (December 1989): 357-362.
- “Editing Hardy and Classroom Texts,” Thomas Hardy Journal 4 (January 1988): 50-53.