Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor
Office of the Provost
527 Andy Holt Tower
Knoxville, TN 37996-0152
Phone: 865-974-2445
Fax: 865-974-4811
provost@utk.edu
Education
- B.A., The Pennsylvania State University
- M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University
Publications
- Family and the Law in Eighteenth-Century Fiction: The Public Conscience in the Private Sphere. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993).
Representative Articles
- “Force, Power, and Contract in The Woman Captain,” Restoration 20 (1996): 175-88
- “Satire and the Bourgeois Subject in Frances Burney’s Evelina,” in Cutting Edges: Postmodern Critical Essays on Eighteenth-Century Satire, ed. James Gill (University of Tennessee Press, 1995), 347-66
- “‘Inordinate Sallies of Desire’ Restrained and ‘Unutterable Rapture Possessed’: The Enplotment of the Reader in Roderick Random,” Reader Entrapment in Eighteenth-Century Literature, (New York: AMS Press, 1992), 201-28
- “‘A Penetration Which Nothing Can Deceive’: Gender and Juridical Discourse in Some Eighteenth-Century Narratives.” Studies in English Literature 29 (1989), 535-61
- “Tame Spirits, Brave Fellows, and the Web of Law: Robert Lovelace’s Legalistic Conscience,” ELH, 53 (1986), 99-120
- “Social Class, Character and Narrative Strategy in Humphry Clinker.” Eighteenth-Century Life 10 (Oct. 1986), 172-85.
Invited Lectures
- NEH Summer Stipend, 1989
- College of Arts & Sciences Faculty Advising Service Award, 1998
- Alumni Outstanding Teaching Award, 1993