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Degrees and Institutions:
Ph.D. English, University of Utah, 2004
M.A. English, University of Utah, 1992
B.A. English/Psychology, Michigan State University, 1985
Courses Taught:
Undergraduate:
ENG 201 Intro to Literary Genres
ENG 265 British Literature 1700-1945
ENG 302 Intro to LIterary Theory and Criticism
ENG 419 British Modernism
ENG 433 American Modernism
Graduate:
ENG 580 "Eros and Mourning: British Modernism"
ENG 675 "Lost Generation(s): American and British Literature of the Entre Guerre"
ENG 675 "British Literature and the Rise of Facism"
Women's Studies 620 Contemporary Feminist Theories
ENG 6800 Feminism and War
Area: Twentieth-Century British and American Literature, Late Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Research Interests: Transatlantic Modernist literature and culture, gender studies, feminism(s), psychoanalysis, and trauma theory.
Recent Publications:
"Photographing Violence: Virginia Woolf's Three Guineas and Contemporary Feminist Responses to Images of War." Woolf, Women, and War: Contemporary Discussions on Gender and Virginia Woolf's War Writing. Ed. Jane Wood. Edwin Mellon Press, forthcoming, December, 2009.
"Freud and the Aesthetic Subject: Rereading Leonardo," currently under review.
"Eros in the Sickroom: Phosphorescent Form and Aesthetic Ecstasy in D.H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers," Journal of Narrative Theory, Vol 38:2 Summer 2008.
"Regarding Violence: Virginia Woolf's Three Guineas and Contemporary Feminist Responses to War," Selected Papers from the 17th Annual Virginia Woolf Conference: Art, Education, and Internationalism. Clemson University Press, 2008.
"Exposing the ‘Nerves of Language’: Virginia Woolf, Charles Mauron, and the Affinity Between Aesthetics and Illness.” Literature and Medicine Vol 21:2 (Fall 2002): 242-263.
“Dorothy Richardson,” “Muriel Spark,” “Sylvia Townsend Warner,” “Mary Webb,” Feminist Writers. Ed. Pamela Kester-Shelton. New York: St. James Press, 1996.
Review of Heterotopia: Postmodern Utopia and the Body Politic by Tobin Siebers. Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature 49 (Fall 1995): 209-211.
Current Projects:
"Sick with the Color of Mother: Aesthetic Transfusions in H.D.' HERmione." (tentative title)
"Fancy (and) Symptoms: Virginia Woolf's The Voyage Out and The Art of Being Ill." (tentative title)
"Queering London: Virginia Woolf and the Politics of Perception."
Professional Memberships:
Modern Language Association
Modernist Studies Association
International Virginia Woolf Society
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