Teaching Experience: Introduction to Women’s Texts; Banned Books: Reading the “Indecent,” “Objectionable,” and “Obscene;" Introduction to Women’s Studies; ‘Life as it Really is’: Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Realism; Writing 1

Service: GSS Diversity Committee

Conferences: October 2007- “Gender, Market, and the Anxiety of Achievement in Popular American Women's Fiction.” Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Convention; April 2007- “‘My Soul – at Liberty –’: The Poetics of Immortality in Dickinson’s Letters to Susan.” Conference: (dis)junctions: Malappropriation Nation. University of California at Riverside; March 2007- “To be a ‘Literary Artist’: The Anxiety of Creative Achievement in Constance Fenimore Woolson’s ‘Miss Grief’,” Conference: Women and Creativity, IX. Marquette University; October 2004- “The Search for An Authentic Self: Sylvia Plath, Gwendolyn Brooks and the Struggle with Domestic Identity.” Colloquium Series: American Literary Studies: The Possible Futures; Directions in Women and Gender Studies. Washington University in St. Louis.

Awards: Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence