Associate Professor of English
Ph.D. - University of California, Berkeley

research interests

Poetry and poetics, 20th Century British and American poetry, nature poetry, ecocriticism, modernism, women's literature, creative writing.

regularly-taught courses

• Introduction to Literature
• Introduction to Creative Writing
• Advanced Poetry Writing
• Modern British and American Poetry
• Writing Poetry for the 21st Century

recent publications

Poetry: Alembic, finalist for the Minnesota Book Award, 2001; poems in Poetry, Midwest Quarterly, Many Mountains Moving, Water-Stone, Willow Springs, others.

Critical work: article on Marianne Moore in ISLE.