BA (DePaul U), MA, M.Ed., (ABD) (U Illinois, Chicago)
Writing Specialist
Assistant Director of Core Writing
Specialization:
American and British Modernist Literature
19th Century American Literature
Women and Literature/ Women's Literature
Aesthetic Theory and the History of Aesthetics
Feminist Theory and Criticism
Theories of Gender, the Body and Performativity
Racial, Class and Gender "Passing"
Novels of "Passing"
Theories of Consumption and Commodification; History and Theory of Fashion and Department Store Mannequins
Select Publications:
I am currently completing an interdisciplinary dissertation project titled: 'Fashioning Identity: Consumption, Performativity and Passing in Modernist Literature.'
Since joining the English Department in the Fall of 2005, I have presented sections of various dissertation chapters as conference papers at MLA, the 20th Century Literature Conference, the American Literature Association Conference, the Annual Virginia Woolf Conference, and RMMLA. Next year, I will chair the 'Fashion and Literature' panel at RMMLA in Calgary.