Q: What is your area of specialty?
A: I’m mostly interested in 19th Century British literature written by Jane Austen, Mary Shelly, and Charlotte Brontë (not to forget Emily and Anny Brontë, George Eliot, and Charles Dickens) as well as how their novels have been adapted for both the Internet and film.
Q: What was the title of your master’s thesis or dissertation?
A: Fashioning Chastity: British Marriage Plots and the Tailoring of Desire, 1789-1928
Q: What is your most recent publication?
A: My most recent publication is “’I Am Not an Angel’: Madness and Addiction in Neo-Victorian Appropriations of Jane Eyre.” I’m currently writing an article exploring a variety of filmic and digital adaptations of the Brontë sisters’ novels.
Q: What is your favorite assignment to assign?
A: My favorite is a classic: close reading of a paragraph making heavy use of the Oxford English Dictionary. With visual media, I do a similar exercise focusing on minute details within a single frame’s mise en scene.
Q: What was the last book you read?
A: Over the winter break, I discovered that the Horry County Library system does not own Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), so I read it.
Q: What are your favorite events on campus?
A: I always enjoy the yearly tree lighting, but this year’s COHFA 20th Anniversary Open House was a stupendous showcase of CCU’s talented arts and humanities students.
Q: Where is your favorite place to eat on campus?
A: Most of the time, I pack my lunch and eat in my office, but when I venture out, my favorite spot is Chauncey’s Choice.
Q: What do you enjoy most about CCU?
A: I enjoy encouraging CCU students to take chances in the classroom and to believe in themselves as scholars. There is no greater source of pride than knowing you are showing up and doing your best work every day.
