Faculty

Academic Interests: British (and English-language) literature 1500-1800, specializing in the long 18th century (1650-1815); early women writers; empire vs. enlightenment in the transatlantic world; John Milton; Ovid in English..

Research: Gender, religion, and politics in the poems of John Milton and Katherine Philips; dark enlightenment in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and  Samuel Johnson; Phillis Wheatley's 1773 Poems; Jane Austen's pre/post-colonial Mansfield Park; architectural structure in Virginia Woolf's Room and early catalogues of female achievement.

Honors: National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship, NEH stipend, teaching awards.

Publications: Paula Loscocco, ed., The Printed Works of Katherine Philips, 3 vols. (Ashgate, 2007); essays on Milton, Philips, gender/feminist theory, Margaret Newcastle, and Laurence Sterne in various journals.