Degrees

• University of Nebraska-Lincoln, B.A. 1990
• University of Nebraska-Lincoln, M.A. in English 2003
• University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Phd in English 2008

Professional Areas of Specialty and Interest

• 19th Century British Literature and Culture
• Romantic Poetry
• Romantic Fiction
• Victorian Fiction
• Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Nineteenth-Century
• Digital Humanities Research
• Science Fiction
• 18th Century British Literature

Courses Taught

• Introduction to English Studies
• British Novel 1700-1900
• Short Story
• Writing: Rhetoric
• Writing from Literature

Personal Statement on Teaching and Research

I see teaching, writing, reading, and scholarship as an ongoing practice of exploration and discovery for students and myself.  It’s through this practice of exploration and discovery that we can try to make sense of ourselves and the world, past, present, and future.

Selected Publications and Projects

Continual Food for Discovery and Wonder: Science and the Nineteenth-Century British Literary
Imagination from Erasmus Darwin to H.G. Wells (book project in progress)

The Man with the Strange Head and Other Science Fiction Stories by Dr. Miles J. Breuer, edited
with an introduction by Michael R. Page.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008.

“Romantic Science Fiction.”  Blackwell’s Encyclopedia of Romanticism. (forthcoming)

“Edward Lytton Bulwer,” “J.C. Loudon,” and “Jane (Webb) Loudon.” Biographical essays for
s the Blackwell’s Encyclopedia of Romanticism. (forthcoming)

“The Darwin Before Darwin: Erasmus Darwin, Visionary Science, and Romantic Poetry.”
PLL: Papers on Language and Literature 41:2 (Spring 2005). 146-69.

“Mary Meeke’s Something Strange: the Development of the Novel and the Possibilities of the
Imagination.”  Romantic Textualities 11:1 (December 2003).

“‘A Lady of Newry’: Critical Introduction.”  Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period. 
Alexandria: Alexander Street Press, 2008.

Digital Projects on Cecilia Cooper, Mary Meeke, John Mitford, and Interdisciplinary Curricular Approaches to the Nineteenth Century.