Degrees

• A.B. English, College of William & Mary
• M.A. English Language & Literature, Indiana University
• Ph.D. English Language & Literature, Indiana University

Specializations

• Early Modern Texts and Cultures
• Writing
• Folklore

Interests

• Writers: John Donne, Edmund Spenser, Margaret Cavendish, Emily Brontë
• Theorists: roland Barthes, Helene Cixous, Louis Montrose, Julia Kristeva

University/Program Connections

• University Honors College Director (1999-2005)
• Women's Studies Steering Committee
• University Retention Committee
• Facilitator, Diversity Training for Social Equity

Passions & Distractions

• Women Writers (especially the Early Modern period)
• Early Literatures (ancient through early 19th Century, particularly Latin and neo-Latin)
• English and Romance Languages in the 16th and 17th centuries
• Poetry
• Interdisciplinary Comparisons of the Arts
• Folklore and Popular Culture
• Antiques, Gardening, Cats

Courses Taught

• English 238H: Western Literary Tradition I
• English 239H: Western Literary Tradition II
• English 311: Advanced Composition
• English 338: Folklore and Literature
• English 441/641: Poetry
• English 404/604: The English Renaissance
• English 406/606 17th Century Literature

Sample Publications

• "The Architecture of Verse: Enclosed Structures in the Poetry of John Donne" (Dissertation)
• "Margaret Lucas Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle" In The Dictionary of Literary Biography
• "Bibliographic Instruction, History of the Book, and Post-Structuralism: An Unlikely Combination Helps Expand the Critical Thinking Skills of Undergraduates" with Marjorie Markoff Warmkessel in Research Strategies 8 (Spring 1990):59-65.