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The cultivation of poetry is never more to be desired than at periods when, from an excess of the selfish and calculating principle, the accumulation of the materials of external life exceed the quantity of the power of assimilating them to the internal laws of human nature. 

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

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My first book reviewed: 

The Wordsworth Circle, vol. 50, no. 4, 2019

The BARS Review, no. 58, spring 2022

Curriculum Vitae

Education

PhD, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO, 2012                       

MA, Fitchburg State University, Fitchburg, MA, 2007

BA, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA, 2004

Teaching Focuses

Poetry, close reading, etymology, grammar and syntax, aesthetics

Languages

Latin: advanced reading and translation

Ancient Greek: advanced reading and translation

Publications

Books

British Romanticism and Prison Reform (Bucknell Univeristy Press, 2024)

The Dissolution of Character in Late Romanticism (Edinburgh University Press, 2018).  

Articles and Reviews

‘Fenwick, Eliza’. The Routledge Research Companion for Romantic Women Writers, edited by Catherine Blackwell, Ann R. Hawkins and E. Leigh Bonds. New York: Routledge, 2023.   

‘Scrapped Sentiment: Letitia Landon and Fisher’s Drawing Room Scrap-Book, 1832–1837’.  Romanticism 25, no. 2 (2019): 190–204. 

‘Autumnal Affect in the Poetry of John Clare’. Studies in English Literature: 1500–1900 58, no. 4 (2018): 855–75.

‘“His Mind Was … My Disease”: Affect Theory and Eliza Fenwick’s Secresy’. In Romanticism and Affect Studies, edited by Seth Reno. May 2018. 18 pars. Romantic Circles Praxis Series. May 2018. <http://www.rc.umd.edu/praxis/affect>.  

Review of Jane Austen and Animals, by Barbara K. Seeber (Farnham: Ashgate, 2013). Romantic Circles Reviews. Edited by Suzanne Barnett. 28 November 2015. Romantic Circles. <https://www.rc.umd.edu/reviews-blog/barbara-k-seeber-jane-austen-and-animals-review-jonas-cope>.

‘“Illusive Light”: Thomas Dermody, the Aisling and Archipelagic Romanticism’. European Romantic Review 26, no. 6 (2015): 757–71.

‘Passive and Dynamic Sincerity in Mary Shelley’s Falkner’. The Keats-Shelley Journal 63 (2014): 123–37.

‘“The Mortal Immortal”: Mary Shelley’s “Overreachers” Reconsidered’. The Explicator 72, no. 2 (2014): 122–26.

‘The Delights and Degrees of Passionate Sensibility: “Mental Fight” in Ann Batten Cristall’s Poetical Sketches’. Romanticism 20, no. 1 (2014): 15–29.

‘“A Series of Small Inconstancies”: Letitia Landon and the Sewn-Together Subject’. Studies in Romanticism 52, no. 3 (2013): 363–87.

‘Stealing the White Man’s Weapon or Forging One’s Own? African and African-American English in Ce’s Children of Koloko and Morrison’s Beloved’. In Critical Supplement (A)1: The Works of Chin Ce, edited by Irene Marques, 63–85. Morrisville: International Confederacy of African Literature and Culture, 2007.

‘“Shaking Off the Old Skin”: The Redemptive Motif in Ellison’s Invisible Man and Dostoevsky’s Notes from the Underground’. Dostoevsky Journal 7 (2006): 75–91.

Service to the Field

Peer Reviewer, European Romantic Review

Peer Reviewer, Victorian Poetry

Peer Reviewer, Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature

Peer Reviewer, Studies in Romanticism 

Peer Reviewer, Pedagogy (Duke University Press)

Peer Reviewer, The Rocky Mountain Review

Research and Teaching Awards

Research Awards

Research and Creative Activity (RCA) Award, Office of Research, Innovation and Economic Development, California State University, Sacramento, 2020–21: 3WTU – spring 2021

Scholarly and Creative Activity (SCA) Award, College of Arts and Letters, California State University, Sacramento, 2019: 3WTU – fall 2020

Research and Creative Activity (RCA) Award, Office of Research, Innovation and Economic Development, California State University, Sacramento, 2019–20: 3WTU – fall 2019; $301.00 – research support funds

Scholarly and Creative Activity (SCA) Award, College of Arts and Letters, California State University, Sacramento, 2019: 3WTU – spring 2019

Outstanding Faculty Award for Scholarly and Creative Activity, College of Arts and Letters, California State University, Sacramento, 2018–19

Research and Creative Activity (RCA) Award, Office of Research, Innovation and Economic Development, California State University, Sacramento, 2018–19: 3WTU – fall 2018 

Research, Scholarly and Creative Activity (RSCA) Award, College of Arts and Letters California State University, Sacramento, 2018: 3WTU – spring 2018 

Research and Creative Activity (RCA) Award, Office of Research, Innovation and Economic Development, California State University, Sacramento, 2017–18: 3WTU – spring 2017  

Research and Creative Activity (RCA) Award, Office of Research, Innovation and Economic Development, California State University, Sacramento, 2016–17: 3WTU – fall 2016

Research and Creative Activity (RCA) Mini-Grant, Office of Research, Innovation and Economic Development, California State University, Sacramento, 2014–15: 3 WTU – spring 201 

Provost’s Research Initiative Fund (PRIF) Grant, Office of Research Affairs, California State University, Sacramento, 2014: $5,000 award

N. E. H. Seminar Member, ‘Reassessing British Romanticism’ (directed by Stephen C. Behrendt), University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2013

English Department Nominee, Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award Nomination, Graduate School, University of Missouri, 2012

Graduate Student Association Travel Grant, University of Missouri, 2011                                     

Harry J. and Richard A. Hocks Dissertation Fellowship, English Department, University of Missouri, 2011

Judith A. and Richard B. Schwartz Student Travel Award, University of Missouri, 2010

Departmental Fellowship, English Department, University of Missouri, 2007         

Donald E. and Mary Frances Hayden Fellowship, English Department, University of Missouri, 2007

Teaching Awards

Curriculum Redesign Award, College of Arts and Letters, California State University, Sacramento, 2020: 3WTU – spring 2020; $600 – professional development funds

Outstanding Wisdom and Leadership Award (OWL), Peer and Academic Resource Center, California State University, Sacramento, 2019

Nominee, Outstanding Faculty Award for Teaching, College of Arts and Letters, California State University, Sacramento, 2017 

Outstanding Wisdom and Leadership Award (OWL), Peer and Academic Resource Center, California State University, Sacramento, 2015

English Department Nominee, Donald K. Anderson Graduate Teaching Assistant Award, University of Missouri, 2011                           

Courses Most Frequently Taught at CSUS

ENGL 40B: British Literature II

ENGL 120A: Advanced Composition  

ENGL 140I: British Romanticism

ENGL 145I: John Milton

ENGL 198T: Senior Seminar  

Add Policy

I do not add any students to any class beyond the cap.

The only way for a student to add the class after the semester starts is to do so on these conditions: i) the student must not miss any classes, and ii) the student must secure an open seat by the end of week two. No one can be added after the second week. No one can be added within the first two weeks who misses any class. 

Thomas Hardy, Barraud, 1886