Radcliffe College B.A.; Girton College, Cambridge University B.A.; Harvard University, Ph.D., 1965

My interests separately and in combination are British Romanticism; colonial and postcolonial literatures, especially British and Indian; and children’s literature, especial colonial and postcolonial. My current projects include a book on Kipling as children’s writer (“Kipling and the Little Traditions”); an edition for Penguin of Just So Stories; an article on Kipling and his American audiences (“How ’The White Man’s Burden’ Lost its Scare Quotes: Kipling and the New American Empire”); and a series of articles on 19th-century women writers of children’s literature (Ewing, Rossetti, Sara Coleridge).

Books and Other Publications:

Romanticism and the Vocation of Childhood. Palgrave, 2001.

Idea of the Decline of Poetry. Harvard Dissertations in American and English Literature. N.Y.: Garland, 1987.

“Punch Reads Aunt Judy: Kipling, Ewing, and the Uses of Children’s Literature.” Twice-Told Children’s Tales: The Influence of Childhood Reading on Writers for Adults. Ed. Betty Greenway. Routledge: NY and London, 2005: 183-198.

“Whose is Kim? Postcolonial India Rewrites Kipling’s Imperial Boy.” South Asian Review 25, no. 2 (2004): 3-22.

"Tagore in the Warsaw Ghetto: Korczak's Production of the Post Office." Rabindranath Tagore: Universality and Tradition, ed. Patrick Hogan and Lalita Pandit, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2003. .

“Jane Austen Goes to India: Emily Eden's Semi-Detached Home Thoughts from Abroad." The Postcolonial Jane Austen. Ed. You-me Park and Rajeswari Sunder Rajan. Routledge, 2000.163-188.