Research Interests:
Phenomenology as a
tool for aesthetic and ethical theory, British Victorian literature
(particularly the work of Oscar Wilde) and consumer culture, Modernist
aesthetics and history of aesthetic theory, disability studies,
composition studies, student symposia.
PUBLICATIONS
Book
Modernist Aesthetics and Consumer Culture in the Writings of Oscar Wilde. New York: Routledge, 2007
Scholarly Articles
"Philosophy with a Needle and Thread: Wilde's Modernist Aesthetics-cum-Commodification." (College Literature, Summer 2007)
"Rosamund Marriott Watson's 'The Seductiveness of Dress': A
Phenomenology of the Woman-of-Fashion" (current project, for an edited
collection entitled
Feminist Theory and Fashion in Modernity)
"Art and
Fashion in Oscar Wilde's 'Cracked Looking-Glass'" (current project, for
an edited collection about Oscar Wilde's critical essays)