I’m a professor at the University of North Texas with a dual focus on classical Hollywood film and Victorian literature and culture. For most of my time at UNT I’ve been housed in the English department, but starting in the fall I'll be moving to the Media Arts department where more of my teaching will be in the field of film studies.

I’ve currently got a lot of different writing, research, and editing logs in the fire, though my biggest project-in-progress is my third monograph that’s tentatively titled Unwomaned!: Classic Hollywood Stardom and the Threat of Female Independence. Another major way I spend my work-time is by serving as the editor in chief of the journal Studies in the Novel .

I originally hail from Philadelphia and hold degrees from Harvard University (B.A.) and the University of Southern California (M.A., Ph.D.). I was named after the way cool Nora Charles (a.k.a. Myrna Loy) from The Thin Man, which probably made my obsession with fabulous old movies inevitable.