TEACHING INTERESTS AND RECENT COURSES: Besides courses in 18th- and 19th-century American literature and culture, I like to teach courses in critical theory and literary history. Recently I have taught lecture/discussion courses such as "Critical Approaches to Literature," "The Romance of American Romanticism," "19th-century Women's Literature, and "Survey of African-American Literature from the Colonial Era to WWI." I've also taught first-year seminars such as "Tolkien and Modernism" and "To Tell an American Story," as well as senior and graduate seminars on topics such as "Slavery's Shadows: Facing Race in 19th-century American Literature," Dissent in America," "American Literary Cultures," and the "Writing Literary History." This coming spring I will be teaching a lecture/discussion on 19th-century American Literature and a senior seminar "Sentimentality and American Identity." 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Forthcoming 2008: Women's Worlds: The McGraw-Hill Anthology of Women's Writing.

Anthology of Women's Writing World Wide in English (McGraw-Hill, 2000), co-edited with Beth-Kowalksi-Wallace, Diane Price-Herndl, Lisa Schnell, Rashmi Varma, and Robyn Warhol. 

Sentimental Collaborations: Mourning and Middle-class Indentity in Nineteenth-Century America (Duke Univ. Press, 2000).

PROGRAM CONNECTIONS: ALANA Studies Program, Women and Gender Studies Program.

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Poetics, 19th-century American poetry, narratives of relationships formed across the color lines in antebellum New England and the problem of literary history. 

CURRENT PROJECT: Slavery's Shadows: Alternate Beginnings to the Story of Race in America. A book-length study of interracial intimacies in the free north in which I will be thinking about the nature of spiritual intimicies in non-fiction accounts of relationships that cross the lines of color. Authors I will be treating include Lemuel Haynes, Will Apess, and Harriet Wilson. 

Slavish Ekphrasis: Imagining the Slave for Liberal America. A book-length study of ekphrasis (a work of art on or about another work of art) in the American Romantic period. Authors I wilbe treating include William Ellery Canning, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Frances Harper.