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

Community and Club Connections

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 Publication

"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.