I have been teaching at the University of Neuchâtel since 2004. Originally from the Canton of Vaud in Switzerland, I grew up in Great Britain and the United States. I received a bachelor’s degree in international relations from Georgetown University and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California at Davis. I have also taught at the Universities of Fribourg and Lausanne.

Research

My research interests include the long Romantic period, from Rousseau to Ruskin (1750-1850); Anglo-Swiss relations; landscape aesthetics; travel literature; cultural exchanges between Great Britain, Europe and America; women's writing; cultural history of the Alps and mountaineering; literature and political theory; literature and the environment; and twentieth-century American poetry.
Students interested in working on a Ph.D. on these or related research topics should contact me. 

Teaching

I am responsible for the BA program in English. I teach four courses per semester at the B.A. and M.A. levels, including the spring semester segment of the first-year Introduction to Literature, and supervise M.A. and Ph.D. theses. 

Publications

Books and edited journals: 

• “British Romanticism and Europe.” A special issue of European Romantic Review. Ed. with Simon Swift and David Duff. Volume 36, number 4 (December 2025).
• Romanticism, Republicanism, and the Swiss Myth. Cambridge Studies in Romanticism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 308 pp. (reprinted in paperback, 2025).       
• The Cambridge History of European Romantic Literature. Ed. Patrick Vincent. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024.  
• Romanticism, Republicanism, and the Swiss Myth. Cambridge Studies in Romanticism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
• “Visitors’ Books and Travel Culture.” A special issue of Studies in Travel Writing. Ed. with Kevin James. Volume 25, number 3 (2022).
• Dévoiler l’Ailleurs. Correspondances, Carnets et Journaux Intimes de Voyage. Ed. with Laurent Tissot and Jacques Ramseyer. Neuchâtel: Alphil, 2020.
• Romanticism, Rousseau, Switzerland: New Prospects. Edited with Angela Esterhammer and Diane Piccitto. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2015.
• “Romantic Prospects.” A special issue of European Romantic Review. Edited with Angela Esterhammer and Diane Piccitto. Volume 24, number 3 (May 2013).
• Helen Maria Williams. A Tour in Switzerland. Edited with Florence Widmer-Schnyder. Geneva: Slatkine, 2011.
• Chillon: A Literary Guide. Veytaux: Château de Chillon, 2010.
• La Suisse vue par les écrivains de langue anglaise. Collection Le Savoir Suisse. Lausanne: Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes, 2009.
• The Romantic Poetess: European Culture, Politics and Gender, 1820-1840. Hanover, New Hampshire: University Press of New England, 2004. 
• American Poetry: Walt Whitman to the Present. Ed. with Robert Rehder. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2006.

 For all publications, please go to: libra - Publications scientifiques