I am a Visiting Assistant Professor of English currently researching and teaching nineteenth-century British and Irish Literature, postcolonial studies, and critical theory. In my book manuscript, Faith in Translation: Comparative Religion and the Feeling of Identity in Victorian Literary Culture, I argue that the discourses of sexuality and religion together disclose a relation to identity that is rooted in sentiment and activity. With attention to comparative religions and writing from both the colonies and the British Isles, this project contends that the Victorian period witnessed a surprising tendency toward flexibility of belief and being that depended on the imaginative acts of translation and composition.

I am also interested in Sino-British relations in the C19 and early C20, periodical studies, and the use of digital tools to analyze corpora of newspapers, novels, and more.