EDUCATION:

    A. B. cum laude, Davidson College, 1973 (English)

    M.A. Duke University, 1974 (English)

    Ph.D. Duke University, 1977 (English, French Minor)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Books:

    Byron's Bulldog: The Letters of John Cam Hobhouse to Lord Byron. Columbus: Ohio State, 1984.

    Don Juan and Regency England. Charlottesville: Virginia, 1990.

    Articulating the Elephant Man: Joseph Merrick and His Interpreters (with Fritz Oehlschlaeger). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1992.

    Lord Byron . New York: Twayne, 1998.

Edited Volumes:

    Psychiatry and Literature. (Volume 4 of the annual Literature and Medicine series.) Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1985.

    Fictive Ills: Literary Perspectives on Wounds and Diseases (co-edited with Elizabeth Sewell; Volume 9 of Literature and Medicine). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1990.

    Disorderly Eaters: Texts in Self-Empowerment (co-edited with Lillian R. Furst). University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State, 1992).

    The Portable Darwin (co-edited with Duncan M. Porter). New York: Viking/Penguin, 1993.

Recent Articles and Essays:

    "Metapathography: Three Unruly Cases," Literature and Medicine 16 (1997), 70-87.

    "His Grand Show: Byron and the Myth of Mythmaking," Byromania: Portraits of the Artist in 19th- and 20th-Century Culture, ed. Frances Wilson (London: Macmillan, 1998), 24-42.

    "Byronic Darwinizing," in Lord Byron: A Multidisciplinary Open Forum , ed. Thérèse Tessier (Versailles: Université de Versailles, 1999), 125-34.

    "Darwin’s Origin Transforms Culture," The World and I (August 1999), 18-37.

    "’From the Alps to Otranto,’" Byron: A Man for All Seasons, ed. M. Byron Raizis (Missolonghi: Missolonghi Byron Society, 2000), 171-77.

    "Practicing Literature and Medicine," Review XXII (2000), 149-60.

    "Millennial Thoughts on E Pluribus Unum," Review, XXIII (2001), 139-52.

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