Courses
Selected American Writers; Introduction to Literary Study: Modern Texts, Contexts, and Critical Methods; Gender, Culture, and Identity in America; Topics in American Literature I: American Women Writers and Modernism

Research Interests
American, Women and Gender Studies, Gender and Sexuality. Nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature and culture, American poetry, women's writing, theories of gender and sexuality

Selected Publications:

Dickinson: The Anxiety of Gender. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.

The Erotic Whitman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.

A Poet's Parents: The Courtship Letters of Emily Norcross and Edward Dickinson. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988.

New Essays on "Daisy Miller" and "The Turn of the Screw. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

A Historical Guide to Emily Dickinson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.