Assistant Professor of English
Ph.D. University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (2002)

office hours, Fall 2008

MF 11:00-12:30 and by appointment

research interests

Primary: Early modern British literature, especially early modern women's writing and representations of the female voice; life writing and autobiography studies; early modern rhetoric and rhetorical approaches to literature

Secondary: Writers of the Sidney circle; writing center administration

regularly-taught courses

• College Writing
• British Literature Survey I
• Gender in Literature and Culture
• Shakespeare

recent publications

Genre and Women's Life Writing in Early Modern England. Co-edited with Michelle M. Dowd. Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2007.

"Urania's Example: The Female Storyteller in Early Modern English Romance." Oral Traditions and Gender in Early Modern Literary Texts. Eds. Mary Ellen Lamb and Karen Bamford. Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2008. 25-39.

"Prefacing Texts, Authorizing Authors & Constructing Selves: The Preface as Autobiographical Space." Genre and Women's Life Writing in Early Modern England. Eds. Michelle M. Dowd and Julie A. Eckerle. Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2007. 97-113.

"'With a tale forsooth he cometh unto you': Sidney and the Storytelling Poet." Sidney Journal 21 (2003): 41-65.