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Selected publications

Monographs

Character, Writing, and Reputation in Victorian Law and Literature (under contract with Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh Critical Studies in Law, Literature and the Humanities )

Law, Literature, and the Transmission of Culture in England, 1837-1925. Burlington, VT and London: ,  2010.

Edited Collections

Teaching Law and Literature. with Austin Sarat and Matthew Anderson. New York: Modern Language Association, 2011.

Law and the Humanities: An Introduction. with Austin Sarat and Matthew Anderson. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2009

Invited Article/Guest Editor

“Victorians and the Law: Literature and Legal Culture.” Introduction to special issue on Victorians and the Law. Victorian Network 5.2 (Winter 2013): 1-11. Web. <>

Articles and Book Chapters

“Literacies for a New Canon.” Law, Culture and the Humanities, First Published Dec 12, 2019, doi:10.1177/1743872119893320.

"Narrative and Law."  Law and Literature. Ed. Kieran Dolin. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2018, pp. 42-57. 

"Gossip, Hearsay and the Character Exception in Victorian Law and Literature." Law and Humanities 9.2 (Fall/Winter 2015): 172-202.

"Riot and Revolution in Elizabeth Gaskell's Fiction." Law, Culture, and the Humanities  10.3 (2014): 421-39.

"Privacy, Character, and the Jurisdiction of the Self: A 'Story of the Door' in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." Special issue on Jurisdiction. English Language Notes 48.2 (Fall/Winter 2010): 215-24.

"Trial Separations: Divorce, Disestablishment, and Home Rule in Phineas Redux." College Literature Special issue on Law and Literature. 35.3 (2008): 30-56.

"Of Testaments and Tattoos: The Wills Act of 1837 and Rider Haggard's Mr. Meeson's Will (1888)." Law and Literature 18.3 (2006): 323-42.

"Fictions of Justice: Testamentary Intention and the (Il)legitimate Heir in Anthony Trollope's Ralph the Heir and E.M. Forster's Howards End." English Literature in Transition 47.3 (2004): 311-30.

"Tinklers and Time Machines: Time-Travel in the Social Fantasy of E. Nesbit and H.G. Wells." Utopian and Dystopian Writing for Children and Young Adults. Eds. Elaine Ostry and Carrie Hintz. New York: Routledge, 2003.

"Wandering Narratives and Wavering Conclusions: Irreconciliation in Frances Burney's The Wanderer and Walter Scott's Waverley." European Romantic Review 12 (2001): 429-456.

Book Reviews (Solicited)

“Murder for Kids: The Making of an American Tradition.” Review of Bloody Murder: The Homicide Tradition in Children’s Literature by Michelle Ann Abate (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2013). Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures  6.2 (2014): 162-67.

Review of Criminal Law and the Modernist Novel: Experience on Trial by Rex Ferguson (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2013). Review of English Studies 65 (2014): 953-55.

Review of The Cambridge Companion to Anthony Trollope, edited by Carolyn Dever and Lisa Niles (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2011). Victorian Studies 55.1 (2013): 162-64.

“Victorian Murder Poems: From the Scaffold to the Hearth.” Review of Crime in Verse: the Poetics of Murder in the Victorian Era by Ellen L. O’Brien (Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2008). Papers on Language and Literature 46.1 (Winter 2010): 102-08.