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

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.

"The Female Storyteller in Early Modern English Romance." Forthcoming in Gender and Oral Traditions in Early Modern Literary Texts. Ed. Mary Ellen Lamb and Karen Bamford. Ashgate.

"From Graduate Student to Writing Administrator: Substantive Training for a Sustainable Future." Co-authored with Karen Rowan and Shevaun Watson. Culture Shock and the Practice of Profession: Training the Next Wave in Rhetoric and Composition. Eds. Virginia Anderson and Susan Romano. Cresskill , NJ: Hampton, 2006. 215-37.