EDUCATION:

University of Connecticut: PhD, English, 1996

College of William and Mary: MA, English, 1990

Boston College: BA, English, 1989

BOOKS:

Connections: Literature for Composition. Co-edited with Julie Nash. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008 (available now). (Click here to link to Connections on the Houghton Mifflin Website.

Drawing the Iron Curtain: John Updike and the Cold War. University of Missouri Press, 2001. (Click here to link to John Updike and the Cold War on the University of Missouri Press website)

Re-Viewing James Baldwin: Things Not Seen (edited collection of essays). Temple University Press, 2000. (Click here to link to Re-Viewing James Baldwin on the Temple University Press website)

Heath Anthology of American Literature, Concise Edition (Co-edited, with Paul Lauter et. al). Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004. (Click here to link to the Heath Anthology of American Literature on the Houghton Mifflin website)

Heath Anthology of American Literature, Fifth Edition. (Co-edited with Paul Lauter et. al.) (Click here to link to the Heath Anthology of American Literature on the Houghton Mifflin website)

The Generation of Ideas. Boston: Thomson/Wadsworth, 2005. (Click here to link to The Generation of Ideas on the Thomson/Wadsworth website).

Prose and Cons: New Essays on Contemporary U.S. Prison Literature. McFarland, 2005 (Click here to link to Prose and Cons on the McFarland website)

 

CRITICAL ESSAYS:

"The Signifying Poppet: Unseen Voodoo and Arthur Miller's Tituba." Forum for Modern Language Studies (43.4, October, 2007: 438-454).

"Playing a Mean Guitar: The Legacy of Staggerlee in Baldwin and Morrison." James Baldwin and Toni Morrison: Comparative Critical and Theoretical Essays , ed. Lovalerie King and Lynn Orilla Scott. New York: Palgrave / Macmillan, 2006 (120-148).

"Deeper Blues, or the Posthuman Prometheus: Cybernetic Renewal and the Late-Twentieth Century American Novel." American Literature (77.2, June, 2005: 379-407)

"Updike, Middles, and the Spell of 'Subjective Geography.'" The Cambridge Companion to John Updike. Ed. Stacey Olster (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2006) 15-28.

"'On the Outside Looking In': White Readers of Nonwhite Prison Narratives." Prose and Cons. Ed. Quentin Miller (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2005) 15-32.

"'A Tyrannically Democratic Force': The Symbolic and Cultural Function of Clothing in Catherine Maria Sedgwick's Hope Leslie." Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers. (19.2, 2002: 121-136)

"Introduction" and "James Baldwin, Poet" in Re-Viewing James Baldwin:Things Not Seen. 1-11, 233-255.

"'Making a Place for Fear': Toni Morrison's First Redefinition of Dante's Hell in Sula." English Language Notes XXXVII, 3: March, 2000: 68-76.

"Updike's Rabbit Novels and the Tragedy of Parenthood." Family Matters in the British and American Novel. Andrea Herrera, Elizabeth Nollen, Sheila Foor, eds. Bowling Green, OH: Popular Press, 1997. 281-312.

"'A Barrier of Words': Narrative Voice and Vision in the Writings of Edith Wharton." American Literary Realism 1870-1910. Fall,1994: 11-23.

"'In the Late Summer of That Year': The Problem of Time in A Farewell to Arms." The Hemingway Review. Spring, 1991: 61-65.

MLA (Modern Language Association), NCTE (National Collegiate Teachers of English), MELUS (Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States), NEMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association), Fitzgerald Society, Hemingway Society, ASA (American Studies Association), ACLA (American Comparative Literature Association)