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Fields of interest:
My teaching and research interests lie mainly in twentieth-century British women’s fiction and culture, Virginia Woolf, narrative theory, theories of embodiment, and food studies. I am at work on a book-length study of ways in which selected writers have used representations of women’s relationships to food (including cooking, serving, and eating) in order to challenge traditional mind/body duality. I am also quite interested in the World War II era and its literature. At the Stark campus I have taught composition courses, Major Modern Writers, and Literature in English II. I include service-learning opportunities in my classes as often as possible, and encourage students to connect theory and practice in order to strengthen their academic learning experiences. I hold an MFA in creative writing, and publish poetry and creative nonfiction regularly.
Select recent publications:
"Linda Pastan." Contemporary American Women Poets: An A-Z Guide. Ed. Catherine Cucinella. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002. 273-7.
"Jayne Anne Phillips." Contemporary American Women Fiction Writers: An A-Z Guide. Ed. Laurie Champion and Rhonda Austin. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002. 306-11.
"Virginia Woolf's Revision of a Shavian Tradition." SHAW: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies 21 (2001): 63-79.
Editorial work:Nonfiction Editor, New Delta Review, 1999-2001.