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  • Ph.D. University of Virginia, May 2002
  • M.F.A. University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1987
  • M.A. University of Pittsburgh, January 1982
  • B.A. University of Pittsburg, 1979

Areas of Interest

  • Victorian literature and culture
  • Children’s literature
  • The novel
  • Women’s Literature and Feminist Theory

Selected Publications and Presentations

Book
Reading Victorian Schoolrooms: Childhood and Education in Nineteenth-Century Fiction. New York: Routledge. Forthcoming Fall 2007

Recent Articles
“The Masquerader in the Garden: Gender and the Body in Angela Carter’s The Magic Toyshop.” Women’s Studies 36 (2007): 1-22.

“English ‘Sheiks’ and Arab Stereotypes: E. M. Hull, T. E. Lawrence, and the Imperial Masquerade.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 48:2 (Summer 2006): 170-185.

“Oral Narrative and Ojibwa Story Cycles in Louise Erdrich’s The Birchbark House and The Game of Silence.” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 31:1(Spring 2006): 27-39.

“Death by Learning: Zymosis and the Perils of School in E. J. May’s Dashwood Priory.” Children’s Literature. 33 (2005): 1-19.

“The Education of Bronte’s New Nouvelle Heloise in Shirley.” SEL: Studies in English Literature 44: 4 (Autumn 2004): 779-803.

Conference Presentations
“Distraction and Destruction in Back to Baghdad: Images of Iraq in a Current Videogame.” The Children’s Literature Association Conference, Newport News, VA, June 16, 2007.

“The Schoolmaster’s Nightmare: Linear and Errant Trains of Thought in Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend.” The Northeastern Modern Language Association Convention, Philadelphia, PA, March 4, 2006.

“Reading the Labyrinth: Anonymity and the Urban Professional in The Sign of the Four.” The Northeastern Modern Language Association Convention, Cambridge, MA, March 31-April 2, 2005.

Courses Taught

Undergraduate

  • ENGL 2100: Writing About Literature
  • ENGL 3104: Adolescent Literature
  • ENGL 3103: Children’s Literature
  • ENGL 3302: British Literature Survey II
  • ENGL 4050: Childhood and the Novel
  • ENGL 4122: The Victorian Novel
  • ENGL 4102: Classics in British Children’s Literature
  • LBST 2101: Western History and Culture: The Invention of Childhood

Graduate Courses

  • ENGL 5050: Childhood and the Novel
  • ENGL 5102: Classics in British Children’s Literature
  • ENGL 5122: The Victorian Novel
  • ENGL 6080: Women and the Novel.
  • ENGL 6101: Introduction to Graduate Studies
  • ENGL 6103: Worlds of Juvenile Literature

Professional Appointments

  • University of North Carolina at Charlotte, NC
  • Department of English
  • Assistant Professor, Fall 2002-present

Awards

  • Fellowship in Literature for Fiction, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts ($5000), 1997
  • Recipient, Sara Henderson Hay Prize for Poetry, Pittsburgh Quarterly, 1996
  • Recipient, The Willow Review Annual Prize for Fiction, 1993

Community Service

  • Judge for Central Piedmont Community College Student Poetry Contest, Fall 2003.
  • “The Work of a University Professor”: a lecture presented at The Canon School, Concord NC, Spring 2003.