My current research agenda focuses on the relationships among narrative, postmodern ethics, and the erotic.  Works in progress include essays on adultery and narrative in the texts of Elizabeth Smart and George Barker, sex and shame in Jean Rhys' Good Morning, Midnight, and intertextuality and intimacy in Ian McEwan's On Chesil Beach and Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier. 

I have also recently completed a study of adultery in the work of James Joyce called "The Revolt of Love:  Marriage, Adultery, and Desire in James Joyce."  This monograph examines the representation of marital sex, particularly adultery, in Joyce's work. Using a methodology informed by postmodern ethics, this study argues that Joyce uses the practice of sex within and without marriage to explore the possibility of an ethical love.

Next, I will be working on an examination of biographies of marriage from a generic perspective, through a lens of the philosophy of erotic love; and a collection of essays on the poetics of the erotic in modernism.

Additionally:

• Reviews published and forthcoming for Modernism/Modernity, English Literature in Transition, and The Space Between

 

• Choice reviewer, 20th Century British Literature

 

• Associate Editor, The CEA Forum, online journal of teaching and learning in English studies for the College English Association

 

• Reading Group Facilitator, Let's Talk About It: Love and Forgiveness (sponsored by the American Library Association)

 

• Co-Founder and Co-Facilitator, NY/PHL Finnegans Wake Reading Group

 

• Member, Modernist Studies Association, The Space Between, International James Joyce Foundation, International Virginia Woolf Society, College English Association