- Imagining Methodism in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Belief, Enthusiasm, and the Borders of the Self (Johns Hopkins UP, 2012)
- Female Playwrights and Eighteenth-Century Comedy: Negotiating Marriage on the London Stage (Palgrave-St. Martin’s Global, 2002)
- Curator, Sacred Satire: Lampooning Religious Belief in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Lewis Walpole Library Gallery show, Yale University, 2011-2012
- Co-Editor, The Routledge Anthology and Sourcebook of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre. (with Kristina Straub and Daniel O’Quinn.) Forthcoming, New York and London: Routledge, 2017.
Representative articles
- “The Genealogy of Georgian Comedy.” Ed. David Francis Taylor. The Oxford Handbook to Georgian Theatre. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2013 (forthcoming)
- “The Scottish Play: Centlivre and The Wonder of British Nationalism.” Ed. Daniel O’Quinn. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2013 (forthcoming)
- “Sacred Satire: Representing Religious Belief in Eighteenth Century Britain.” Curated gallery show with book, Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University. September 22, 2011-March 1, 2012.
- “Embodying Centlivre’s Comic Vision: A Bold Stroke for a Wife and The Wonder; a Woman Keeps a Secret in the Classroom. The MLA Guide to Teaching British Women Playwrights of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century. Ed. Bonnie Nelson and Catherine Burroughs. New York: MLA, 2010.
- “Women Playwrights.” Cambridge Companion to British Theatre, 1730-1830. Ed. Jane Moody and Daniel O’Quinn. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2007: 145-158.
- Baby Talk; or, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Exit.’ ADE Bulletin, 138-139, Fall 2005-Spring 2006
- “Our Purpose is the Same’: Whitefield, Foote, and the Crisis of Methodist Theatricality” Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, Vol. 34, 2005
- “Living in a Material World: Margaret Cavendish’s The Covent of Pleasure,” in Senses of Touch: Discourse of Tactility, ed. Elizabeth Harvey and H.L. Meakin, introduction and afterward by Lynn Enterline, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002
- “Mr. Barvile’s Enthusiasm: Habit, Discipline, and Methodism in the Eighteenth-Century British Imagination,” in Launching Fanny Hill: Critical Essays, ed. Patricia Fowler, AMS Press, 2002
- “Tactile Places: Materializing Desire in Margaret Cavendish and Jane Barker,” Textual Practice, Vol.13 (2), (1999), 329-352
- “Frances Burney,” Reader’s Guide to Literature in English, ed. Mark Hawkins-Dady (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1996)
- “Justify My Desire: Madonna and the Representation of Visual Pleasure,” Gender in Popular Culture: Images of Men and Women in Literature, Visual Media, and Material Culture, ed. Susan Rollins (Cleveland: Ridgemont Press, 1995), 7-24
- “‘The Different Sorts of Friendship’: Desire in Mansfield Park,” Jane Austen and Discourses of Feminism, ed. Devoney Looser (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1995)
- “Rehearsing the Eighteenth Century: The (Re) Production of Professional Knowledge,” The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, 35 (1994): 86-95.