Phone: (956) 326-2601

Office: KL 333 A

Teaching:
British Romanticism
British Victorians
Minority Literature
Chicano Literature
Milton

Research:
Books:
Hoeveler, Diane and Jeffrey Cass, ed.
Interrogating Orientalism: Contextual Approaches and Pedagogical Practices. [Forthcoming, The Ohio State UP, 2006]

Cass, Jeffrey and Larry Peer, ed. Romantic Border Crossings.
[Submitted to Ashgate Press]

Special Issue:
Editor, Special Issue of Storytelling: A Critical Journal of Popular Narrative, Volume 5, Number 2 (Winter 2006).

Articles:
“Interrogating Orientalism: Theories and Practices”
[Interrogating Orientalism: Contextual Approaches and Pedagogical Practices, The Ohio State University Press, 2006]

“Homoerotics and Orientalism in William Beckford’s Vathek: Liberalism and the Problem of Pederasty.” [Interrogating Orientalism: Contextual Approaches and Pedagogical Practices, The Ohio State University Press, 2006]

“The Story of Avis: Phelps’s Orientalist Figure of the Sphinx.”
Autopoetica: Fictional Representations of the Creative Process in British and American Nineteenth-Century Literature, Darby Lewes, ed. [Forthcoming, Rowman Littlefield/Lexington, 2006]

"Ithuriel's Spear and Detecting the Counterfeit: Edgeworth's Miltonic Allusions in Belinda. Romanticism: Comparative Discourses. Larry Peer and Diane Hoeveler, ed. [Forthcoming, Ashgate, 2006]

“ ‘The Race of the Cid’: Blood, Darkness, and the Captivity Narrative in
Felicia Hemans’s The Siege of Valencia.” European Romantic Review
[Forthcoming, Summer 2006].

“Irish Girls Gone Wild: Glenarvon, Regency Hypocrisy, and Spartan Virtue.”
CEA Critic [Forthcoming, 2006]

“Philip Meadows Taylor and Confessions of a Thug: Thuggee Theatricality and the Horror of the Oriental Other.” South Asian Review 26.2 (2005): 21-40.

“Lost in Translation: Caroline Percy’s ‘Unwounded Ear’ and
Voltaire’s Orientalist Intertext in Patronage.” ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews 18 (1) 2005: 42-46.

“Milton’s Satan and Dacre’s Zofloya: Orientalist Camp”
La Questione Romantica 12/13, Primavera/Autunno 2002 [2004].

“ ‘Egypt on Steroids’: Luxor Las Vegas and Postmodern Orientalism.” Architecture and Tourism: Perception, Performance and Place. Lasansky, D. Medina and Brian McLaren. New York: Berg Publishers, 2004: 241-263 [Book has been contracted by Editorial Gustavo Gili (Barcelona) and will be translated into Spanish for publication in 2006]

“Iconotexts and Architecture: Toward Literary Analysis.”
Academic Exchange Quarterly 8 (1) 2004: 150-154.

“Miltonic Orientalism: Jane Eyre and the Two Dalilas”
Dickens Studies Annual. Volume 33 (2003): 191-213.

Education:
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, UC San Diego
M.A. in Comparative Literature, UC San Diego
B.A. in English and German, University of Dallas

Representative Scholarly Activities:
Conference Presentations:
“Philip Meadows Taylor’s The Story of My Life: Invention and Orientalized Autobiography.” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association.
Atlanta, GA (April 2006)

“Fighting Over the Woman’s Body: Romantic Women Writers and Representations
of Spain.” Women and Creativity 8. Women’s Studies Program. Milwaukee, WI
(March 2006)

“The Discourse of Romantic Women Novelists: Interweaving Milton and Orientalism.”
Federation Rhetoric Symposium, Rhetoric and Kairos. Federation of North Texas Area Universities. Denton, TX (February 2006)

“’The Race of the Cid’: Hybrid Blood in Felicia Hemans’s The Siege of Valencia.” International Conference on Romanticism. Colorado Springs, CO (October 2005)

“The Grand Ole Opry Hotel: Tourism and the Idealization of the Old South.” Special Session Organizer for Themed Environments. South Central Modern Language Association. Houston, TX (September 2005)

“Orientalizing Deviance in Owenson’s The Missionary: Paradise Lost and the Dangers of Cultural Proximity.” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism. Montreal, Canada (August 2005).

“Corruption of Innocence, Enjoyment of Youth:
Sexual Obsession in Popular Representations of Children.”
Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association.
San Diego, CA (March 2005).

“The Race of the Cid”: Blood, Darkness, and the Captivity Narrative in Felicia Hemans’s The Siege of Valencia. British Women Playwrights, 1780-1830. Chapman University. Orange, CA (March 2005).