Department of English at the University of Virginia

Books

Transamerican Literary Relations and the Nineteenth-Century Public Sphere.  (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture series) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Recent Articles

• “Scholarship and the State: Robert Greenhow and Transnational American Studies 1848/2008.” American Literary History (forthcoming Fall, 2008)
• "L’Ouragan de Flammes (The Hurricane of Flames): New Orleans and Transamerican Catastrophe, 1866/2005." American Quarterly (December 2007).
• "Hemispheric Jamestown." Hemispheric American Studies, ed. Caroline Levander and Robert Levine (Invited by editors, Rutgers University Press, 2008).
• "Autobiografia de un esclavo, 'El negro mártir,' and the Revisionist Geographies of Abolitionism." American Cultural Geographies, ed. Hsuan Hsu (Invited by editor; Delaware University Press, 2007).

Book Awards

• (for Transamerican Literary Relations and the Nineteenth-Century Public Sphere, Cambridge University Press, 2004)
• Gustave Arlt Award for Best First Book in the Humanities, Council of Graduate Schools (2005)
• Honorable Mention for the Lora Romero Award, American Studies Association (2005)