My most recent book, Victorian Skin: Surface, Self, History, focuses on the history of the body, medicine and realism in the nineteenth century, with special attention to skin and surface. This is an extension of my long-term work on the history of the body and medicine in the period, and on the history of genre. Other areas of interest include popular literature and medical humanities. Some recent publications include “Recent Studies in the Nineteenth Century.” SEL: Studies in English Literature, 59.4 (2019): 913-954, “Sensation.” Routledge Handbook of Victorian Literature. Talia Schaffer and Dennis Denisoff, Eds. Routledge, 2019. pp 95-105, “Dreadful: Aesthetic Fear in Victorian Reading” in Dreadful Passions: Fear in the Literary and Medical Imagination Medieval to Modern. London: Palgrave, 2018: 79-99 and “How Disgust Entered the Ghost Story.” Routledge Handbook to the Ghost Story, Scott Brewster and Luke Thurston, eds. London: Routledge, 2018: 409-417. A recent coedited project, Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature in four volumes, Blackwell, 2015 (Coedited with Dino Felluga and Linda Hughes), won the “Outstanding Reference Book” designation from the American Library Association, January 2016. I was a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow (2016) and Society for the Humanities Fellow at Cornell (2016-17).