Book Project:

The British Tourist in the Roman Catholic World argues that travel was one of the primary means by which nineteenth-century British tourists inscribed their prejudices, and that the guidebooks that led them abroad helped articulate ways in which to “tolerate” difference while maintaining hierarchical structures that benefit English Anglicans – a sleight of hand in which the liberal subjects imagine themselves as both tolerant and superior. Scholars in my field of literary studies have opened the guidebook genre to literary examination in past decades; to their work, this study seeks to make it impossible to read travel writing from the nineteenth century without seeing its inextricability from the religious politics of the time.

Mariana Starke, John Chetwode Eustace, John Murray III, Jemima Morrell, Charles Dickens, and John Ruskin feature heavily in this book.

Joseph Forsyth, Lord Byron, John Cam Hobhouse, John Murray II, Francis Palgrave,  J.M.W. Turner, and Walter Pater make appearances as well.

Join the bidding war over the right to publish this book.*

*This is a fictional war about a non-fictional work of lively academic prose.

Refereed Publications:

• • “Assessing and Transgressing: On the Racist Origins of Academic Standardization.” Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies 17.1 (Spring 2021).
  • “Mary Shelley in the South Bronx.” Keats-Shelley Journal, 68 (2019): 148-149.
  • “John Chetwode Eustace, Radical Catholicism, and the Travel Guidebook: The Classical Tour (1813) and Its Legacy.” Studies in Romanticism, 57.2 (Summer 2018): 219-242.
  • “The 19th-Century Traveler and the 21st-Century Scholar.” Literature Compass 10.9 (September 2013): 725-733. 
  • “Austen’s Fanny Price, Grateful Negroes, and the Stockholm Syndrome.” Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal 34 (2012): 222-235. (Co-authored with Anne K. Mellor.)
  • Manlier than Mozart: The Anti-Wagnerian Stance of A Wicked Voice.” Consortium: A Journal of Cross-Disciplinary Inquiry. Boulder: UC Boulder Umbrellagraph Press, 2011.

Dissertation:

The British Traveler and the Continental Tour, 1789-1884.