My research focuses on the writing of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, with particular interests in women's writing, the Georgian theatre and, more generally, the intersection of politics and literature in the 1790s. My first book, Revolutionary Imaginings in the 1790s: Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson, Elizabeth Inchbald (Palgrave: 2009) dealt with women writers and their response to the French Revolution. My current book project is tentatively entitled "Thomas Holcroft and the Revolutionary Drama: Radicalism Reception, Afterlives". In it, I examine the life and work of the playwright, novelist, critic, translator and political activist Thomas Holcroft (1745-1809). In telling Holcroft's story, I also explore subjects such as censorship of the theatre, 18th-century sociability, the 1794 Treason Trials, early melodrama, Victorian afterlives and life-writing. My current project in many ways grows out of the earlier one, as both examine the culturally and politically vibrant Revolutionary decade in Britain; the promise it offered but also the forces that combined to repress the struggle for reform and its articulation in poetry, drama, and imaginative prose. A side project on which I am also working considers Thomas Holcroft's unlikely friendship with the composer Joseph Haydn.
At Tel Aviv University I teach the Introduction to British Culture II. In the past I also taught courses such as "Jane Austen", "The Godwins and the Shelleys", "The Romantic Era Novel" and "the Gothic Novel".
