Courses
ENGLISH 280: WOMEN WRITERS - TOPIC: U.S. Women Writers, 1915-2006
ENGLISH 553: SEMINAR IN LATER AMERICAN LITERATURE - TOPIC: Late 19th- and Early 20th-Century American Literary Studies
Teaching Interests
19th- and 20th-century American literature, feminist theory, critical pedagogy.
Specializations
19th- and 20th-Century American Literature; Gender Studies.
Publications
BOOKS AND EDITED COLLECTIONS
Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing. Edited with Philip Gould. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2001. 336 pages.
New Cultural Edition of "The Yellow Wallpaper." Boston : Bedford Books, 1998. 360 pages.
Edith Wharton's Brave New Politics. University of Wisconsin Press, 1994. 225 pages.
Guest editor (with Kelly Oliver), Special Issue on "Feminism and Language" in Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy. April 1992. 232 pages.
Feminism, Bakhtin, and the Dialogic. Eds. Dale Bauer and Susan Jaret McKinstry. Albany : SUNY Press, 1992. 259 pages.
Feminist Dialogics. Albany : SUNY Press, 1988. 204 pages.
ARTICLES IN JOURNALS
"Embedded Pedagogy" in College English 65.4 (March 2003): 427-38.
"Refusing Middle Age" in ANQ 15.1 (Winter 2002): 46-60.
"Professing Women" in Reader 45 (Fall 2001): 58-72.
"`In the Blood': Sentiment, Sex, and the Ugly Girl" in differences. Eds. P. Gould and L. Tennenhouse. 11.3 (Fall 2000): 57-75.
"Complaining, Conversing, and Coalescing" (with Priscilla Wald). Signs 25,4 (Summer 2000): 1299-1303. Reprinted in Feminisms at a Millennium. Eds. Howard and Allen. Chicago : U of Chicago P, 2001: 287-91.
"Indecent Proposals: Teaching's Public Image." College English (Spring 1998). 301-17.
"`Just the Fax, Ma'am': Male Sentimentality in the Die Hard Films" (with Ann Ardis) in Arizona Quarterly 47,2 (Summer 1991): 117-29.
"Authority," NWSA Journal 3,1 (Winter 1991): 95-97..
"Jenny Holzer and The Rhetoric of Violence," Reader 23 (Spring 1990): 10-21.
"The Other `F' Word: The Feminist in the Classroom," College English (April 1990): 385-96.
"Edith Wharton's Brave New Politics," Arizona Quarterly 45,1 (Spring 1989): 49-71.
"The Joke Cure," Works and Days 13 7,1 (Spring 1989): 91-101.
"The Rune of History: Edith Wharton's `Roman Fever,'" College English (October 1988): 681-93.
"Identificatory Reading," Perigraph II (Spring 1988): 7-21.
"Language, Class, and Sexuality in Henry James's `In the Cage,'" (with Andrew Lakritz), New Orleans Review (Fall 1987): 61-69.
BOOK CHAPTERS
A Master Thoughts @ in White Scholars/Black Texts. Ed. Lisa Long. Newark : Rutgers UP (forthcoming 2005). Mss 18.
"The Other `F' Word." Reprinted in Gender and Composition. Ed. Gesa Kirsch, et al. . Boston : Bedford Books, 2003. 351-62. [Reprinted from College English.]
"Afterword" to Intertexts. Ed. Marguerite Helmers. Lawrence Erlbaum. Fall 2002. 219-25.
"Wharton's `Others': Intimacy and Addiction" in The Historical Guide to Edith Wharton. Ed. Carol Singley. New York : Oxford UP, 2002. 115-45.
"Academic Housework" in Women's Studies on its Own. Ed. Robyn Wiegman. Durham : Duke UP, 2002. 245-57.
"Content or Costume? Henry James and Cultural Capital" in Henry James Goes to the Movies. Ed. Susan M. Griffin . Lexington : UP Kentucky , 2002. 240-53.
"Afterword" to Insurrections. Ed. Andrea Greenbaum. Albany : SUNY Press, 2001. 185-89.
"Fiction" in Encyclopedia of American Intellectual and Cultural History. Eds. Mary Cayton and Peter Williams. New York : Scribner's, 2000. 589-99.
"The Other `F' Word" in Critical Literacy in Action. Eds. Ira Shor & Caroline Pari. (Rpt. of College English 1990 essay). Portsmouth , NH : Boynton/Cook, 1999. 225-37.
"'My Kinsman, Major Mailloux': Feminist Rhetorical Criticism" in Reconceptualizing American Literary/Cultural Studies. Ed. William Cain. Boston : Garland Press, 1996. 159-67.
"Student Resistance and Feminist Style" (with Katherine Rhoades) in Antifeminism in the Academy. New York : Routledge, 1996. 95-113.
"Personal Criticism and the Academic Personality" in Who Can Speak? Eds. Judith Roof and Robyn Wiegman. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1995. 56-69.
"Charlotte Perkins Gilman" (with Mary V. Marchand). Women Public Speakers in the United States, 1925-1993. Ed. Karlyn Kohrs Campbell. Westbury , CT : Greenwood Press, 1994. 359-78.
Entries on Hysteria, Beauty (with Jean Lutes), Political Writings (with Colleen Kennedy) for the Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the U.S. Eds. Cathy Davidson and Linda Wagner- Martin. New York : Oxford UP, 1994.
"Feminist Sophistics: Teaching with an Attitude" (with Susan Jarratt). Changing Classroom Practices. Ed. David Downing. Urbana : NCTE, 1994. 149-65.
"The Meanings and Metaphors of Student Resistance." Styles of Cultural Activism. Ed. Philip Goldstein. Newark : University of Delaware Press, 1994. 64-76.
"Reading Ambivalence." Gilbert and Gubar's Influence on American Feminist Criticism. Ed. William Cain. Boston : Garland Press, 1994. 183-95.
"Gender in Bakhtin's Carnival" in Feminisms. Eds. Robyn Warhol and Diane Price Herndl. New Brunswick : Rutgers UP, 1991. (Rpt. of Introduction to Feminist Dialogics). 671-84.
"The Politics of Collaboration in The Whole Family." Old Maids to Radical Spinsters, ed. Laura Doan. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1990: 107-22.
"The Awakening and the Woman Question," (with Andrew Lakritz), PMLA Teaching Series on The Awakening, ed. Bernard Koloski, 1988: 47-52.
Reviews in Studies in Short Fiction, SIGNS, Women's Review of Books, The Henry James Review, Legacy, Novel, Pedagogy, CCC, College English, ANQ , NEQ, JAC.
Work in Progress
"Sex Expression and American Women." This project traces the advent of American women's "sex expression" in literature, from Phelps and Davis in the 1860s and '70s to previously unexplored mass-market writers in the 1930 and 1940s.
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