AB with High Distinction (Nebraska), MA (Washington), PhD (Nebraska-Lincoln)
Associate Professor
Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts
Specialization:
Composition and Rhetoric, Teaching of Writing, Autobiography/Life Writing, Western American Literature.
Select Publications:
Co-editor with Gioia Woods. On Western Subjects: Autobiographical Writing in the North American West. 2004. Salt Lake: University of Utah Press.
Experiencing Collaborative Autobiography. In: William Craig Howes and Miriam Fuchs (eds). Forthcoming (2006). Teaching Life Writing. MLA Options in Teaching Series. NY: Modern Language Association.
Feminism and Composition: Inclusion, Metonymy, and Disruption (with Joy Ritchie). CCC 50 (1999): 585-606. Reprinted in Trends and Issues in Postsecondary English Studies (NCTE, 2000); Cross-talk in Comp Theory (NCTE, 2003); and Feminism and Composition: a Critical Sourcebook (NCTE, 2003).
Western American Literature and the Canon. 1997. In: Updating the Literary West. Ft. Worth: TCU. pp 44-70.
A Usable Past: Functions of Stories Among New TAs. 1994. In: Writing Program Administration 18: 29-36.