My book and other publications on Robert Browning led to my interest in the Victorian writer Augusta Webster.  Thanks to a three-year SSHRC standard research grant, I have completed several articles and a book on Webster.  I am currently working on British Aestheticism, focusing on the poetry of Alice Meynell. 

PUBLICATIONS
BOOK

Robert Browning’s Romantic Irony in "The Ring and the Book."  Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999. 

REVIEWS OF BOOK

Shaw, W. David.  “Review of Robert Browning’s Romantic Irony in ‘The Ring and the Book’,”  by Patricia Rigg. Victorian Studies 43.3 (2001): 463-465.

Gibson, Mary Ellis.  “Review of Robert Browning’s Romantic Irony in ‘The Ring and the Book,”  by   Patricia Rigg.  Victorian Poetry 37.3 (1999): 383-84.

JOURNAL ARTICLES 

“Everything Old is New Again: Pedagogy, Theory, and the “New” Victorian Canon.” Victorian Studies Association of Ontario Newsletter (September 2006): 3. (Invited)

“’Present in the Drama’: The Literary Drama of Augusta Webster."  Australasian Victorian Studies Journal Vol 10 (2004): 110-27. 

“Augusta Webster and the Lyric Muse:  The Athenaeum and Webster’s Poetics.” Victorian Poetry 42.2 (2004): 135-164. 

“A New Literacy: Teaching with Technology in the University Composition Classroom,” with Anne Boyle, Wake Forest University.  Proceedings of Ed-Media 2004.  Eds. Lorenzo Cantoni and Catherine McLoughlin.  Norfolk, Virginia: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, 2004. 

"Augusta Webster: The Social Politics of Monodrama." Victorian Review 26.2 (2001): 75-107.

"The Electronic University Community: Lessons in Pedagogy." In Text Technology.  R.G. Siemens and W. Winder, eds. 10.2 (2001): 71-78. 

"Acadia/Wake Forest University Writing Project: Composition, Collaboration, and Computers" with Anne Boyle.  Interactive, Multimedia Electronic Journal for ComputerEnhanced Learning http://www.wfu.edu/IMEJ/WFUAcadia/ (1998). 

"The Reader's Conversion Through Romantic Irony in Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day." SBHC 22.2 (1998): 67-80. 

"Ionesco's Berenger: Existential Philosopher or Philosophical Ironist?"  Modern Drama 35.4 (1992): 538-551.

"Legal 'Repristination' in The Ring and the Book."  Browning Institute Studies 18 (1991): 113-130.

REVIEWS

Review of Harbrace Reader for Canadians, ed. Joanne Buckley, for Harcourt Brace. Toronto: Harcourt Brace, 1999.

Review of A Victorian Lady's Album, ed. Della Stanley, for Formac. Halifax: Formac Publishing, 1994.

Review of U.S. prototype for 2nd Canadian Edition of The St Martin's Handbook for Nelson Canada, 1993. 

Review of The Clerical Character in George Eliot's Fiction by Oliver Lovesey and George Eliot by Kristin Brady. Victorian Studies Association Newsletter  50 (October 1992): 26-29.

Review of George Eliot, by Simon Dentith.  Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada Newsletter 13.2 (1987): 37-40.

PAPERS DELIVERED

“Robert Browning and Augusta Webster: ‘How very hard it is to be a Christian.’” North American Victorian Studies Association Conference.  Victoria, British Columbia, 11 October 2007. 

“Aestheticizing the Maternal: The “upheaval” of Late Nineteenth-Century Feminism.” Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities ACCUTE Conference.  Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 28 May 2007. 

“Tenure, Promotion, and the Process of Career Development.” Conference of the Social Sciences and Humanities Chairs of English Conference.  Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 25 May 2007. (Invited)

 “The Sonnet, Aestheticism, and the Poetic Transition from Victorianism to Modernism.” Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities ACCUTE Conference.  Toronto, Ontario, 27 May 2006.  

“Mrs. Grundy ‘tooth to nail’: Aestheticism and the Culture of Individualism in the Athenaeum.”  Trans/National Culture 1750-1850 Network and Exchange.  Halifax, N.S., 22 October 2005.

“The Female Aesthetic Movement and the Athenaeum: Augusta Webster, Mathilde Blind, and Mary F. Robinson tilt 'the mirror of Victorian culture' in the 1880s.”  Eightheenth and Nineteenth Century British Women Writers Conference. Lafayette, Louisiana, 16 April 2005. 

“’The Rescue from the Brissons Rocks’”: Augusta Webster’s Transformation of Painting into Narrative and Lyric.” Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities ACCUTE Conference. Winnipeg, Manitoba, 28 May 2004.

“A New Literacy: Teaching with Technology in the University Composition Classroom,” with Anne Boyle, Wake Forest University.  Ed-Media 2004: World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia, and Telecommunications.  Lugano, Switzerland, 26 June 2004. 

“Augusta Webster and the Politics of Education.” North American Victorian Studies Association Conference.  Bloomington, Indiana, 19 October 2003.  

“'The Chat of the Day': The Transformation of Webster’s Examiner essays into A Housewife’s Opinions.”  Eightheenth and Nineteenth Century British Women Writers Conference.  Dallas, Texas, 22 April 2003. 

“Reshaping the Hero: Masculine Virtue in Augusta Webster’s Literary Dramas.” Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities ACCUTE Conference .  Toronto, Ontario, 27 May 2002. 

“Augusta Webster and the Drama of Ideas.” Eightheenth and Nineteenth Century British Women Writers Conference.  Madison, Wisconsin, 19 April 2002. 

“Augusta Webster: The Athenaeum, and Poetry: A Book of Rhyme.” Eightheenth and Nineteenth Century British Women Writers Conference.  Laurence, Kansas, 16 March 2001. 

“The Magdalen-Charity: The Victorian Legacy” Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States. Los Angeles, California, 23 October 2000. 

"The Magdalen: the Woman, the Institution and the Law."  Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities ACCUTE Conference.  Edmonton, Alberta, 24 May 2000. 

"Technology and Problem-Based Based Learning: The Virtual Benefits of the Processes of Critical Thinking and Collaborative Writing." The International Conference on Learning with Technology.  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 8-10 March 2000.    

“Augusta Webster’s Portraits: Looking Through the Eye.”  NASSR Conference.  Halifax, Nova Scotia, 12 August 1999.  

"Strategies of Pedagogy in the Wired Classroom."  Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities ACCUTE Conference.  Ottawa, Ontario, 27 May 1998. 

"Teaching English in a "Wired" Classroom."  Technology in the Classroom: A New Pedagogy?  Acadia University, Wolfville, N.S.  22 May 1997. 

"Victorian Tristrams: Arnold and Tennyson and the Masculine Ideal."  The Learneds ACCUTE Conference. Calgary, Alberta, 3 June 1994. 

"In Search of Browning's Reader: A Study of Aesthetic Response."  The Learneds ACUTE Conference.  Victoria, British Columbia, 23 May 1990. 

"Romantic Irony and Browning's Roman Speakers."  The Learneds ACUTE Conference.  Windsor, Ontario, 29 May 1988.

PANELS CHAIRED

“Page Proofs, Signatures, Marginalia.” North American Victorian Studies Association Conference, 11 October 2007. 

“Women, Morality, and Campaign Finance Reform.”  Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century British Women Writers Conference.  Lafayette, Louisiana.  16 April 2005. 

"Marginal Pedagogies." AUTE Conference. Sackville, N.B., 18 October 1997. 

"T. S. Eliot and Gertrude Stein."  The Learneds ACCUTE Conference. Calgary, Alberta, 6 June 1994.

ACADEMIC GRANTS AND AWARDS

WORK IN PROGRESS

Julia Augusta Webster: Writer, Activist, Wife, and Mother (book manuscript under review)

 “British Aestheticism and the Maternal Muse” (paper in progress)

Aestheticism and the Culture of Individualism (book length project in progress)

“Catholicism and Aestheticism in the Poetry of Alice Meynell” (paper in progress)

“British Aestheticism and the Maternal Muse” (paper in progress)

“Enter into the Genius of Him”: Augusta Webster and Translation Theory (paper in progress)

“Margaret” in the poetry of AW