Senior Instructor
About
Role:
FacultyPosition:
- Senior Instructor
- Director, Composition Placement
- Associate Editor, Academic Labor: Research and Artistry
Department:
- English and University Composition Program
Education:
- Ph.D. in English Studies (Illinois State University, 2015)
- Master's in English (Illinois State University, 2008)
- Bachelor's in Psychology (University of South Florida, 2003)
Biography
My research focuses primarily on the female expatriate literary communities of early twentieth-century Paris. Figures include women such as Sylvia Beach, Gertrude Stein, Natalie Barney, H.D., Djuna Barnes, and Janet Flanner. I look at how issues of gender, economics, and sexuality all work together in the communities these women established and maintained between the World Wars. I am also interested in American women’s literature, global women's literature, American cultural studies, and gender studies.
Publications
Review of Contesting Intersex: The Dubious Diagnosis, by Georgiann Davis (2016) in American Book Review.
Courses
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E 332: Modern Women Writers
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AMST 101: Self/Community in American Culture Since 1877
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E 334: Gay and Lesbian Literature
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CO 300: Advanced Composition
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CO 301B: Science Writing