lantic
literature of the long eighteenth century, as well as occasional
courses on Western civilization for the Honors Program, and she is
affiliated with the Women's and Gender Studies Program. Her
scholarship focuses on the circulation of texts, genres, and ideas
around the British Atlantic before 1800, particularly on depictions of
colonized peoples, women’s literature, religious discourse, and emotion
studies. She is the author of The Poor Indians: British Missionaries, Native Americans, and Colonial Sensibility (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004) as well a
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articles dealing with the literature of Protestant Christian mission, sermons,
female robinsonades, transatlantic circulations of ideas and texts, anti-Catholic rhetoric, and
early modern scriptural interpretation. Her work has been supported by
grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Huntington
Library, the John Carter Brown Library, the American Philosophical
Society, and the 
Oklahoma
Humanities Council. She received the
University of Tulsa’s Outstanding Teaching Award in 2009. She is a former President of the South-Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, is on the editorial board of Religion in the Age of Enlightenment, and is a Consultant Reader for Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers. She is the Executive Coordinator of the Society of Early Americansts for 2011-13.