19th, 20th, and 21st Century American Literature

Southern Literature

Feminist Theory and Literature

Literary Biography

Education

• PhD in English The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• MA in English, The University of Georgia, Athens
• BA in English, The College of William and Mary

Research and Teaching Interests

• 19th, 20th, and 21st Century American Literature
• Southern Literature
• American Women’s Writing
• Literary biography and memoir

Courses

• ENGL206: American Literature II
• ENGL301: Introduction to the English Major
• ENGL/GSWS353: Women’s Writing
• ENGL374: U.S. Literature: Modernism
• ENGL 475: U.S. Literature After 1945
• ENGL 380: Southern Literature
• ENGL 499: Senior Seminar

Representative Publications

• “'Understanding All Too Well What is Meant': Teaching Toni Morrison's 'Recitatif',” The Bloomsbury Handbook to Toni Morrison, Eds. Kelly Reames and Linda Wagner-Martin. Bloomsbury Press, 2023.
• Understanding Pat Conroy, The University of South Carolina Press, 2015 .
• Elizabeth Spencer’s Complicated Cartographies: Reimagining Home, the South, and Southern Literary Production, Palgrave McMillan, 2009.

Affiliations

• North American Editor, The Journal of the Short Story in English (JSSE)