Ph.D., Brandeis University
Professor of English and Women's and Gender Studies (chair)
Perfecting Friendship: Politics and Affiliation in Early American Literature (University of North Carolina Press, 2006).
The Heath Anthology of American Literature, general editor, Paul Lauter, 5th edition, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006; editor of Volume A, 1500 to 1800.
"For Gloria Anzaldúa: Collecting America, Performing Friendship," PLMA: Publication of the Modern Language Association 121 (1 January) 2006: 285-91.
Companion to The Literatures of Colonial America: An Anthology (33 critical essays), co-edited with Susan Castillo, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2005.
"The Canary in the Mine," September 11 Roundtable, Signs, special issue on Cultural Memory, vol. 28, 1 (Autumn) 2002.
Heath Anthology of American Literature, Period Editor, 1500-1800, 4th edition, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001.
The Literature of Colonial America: An Anthology, co-edited with Susan Castillo, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2001.
"Women's Studies Online: Cyberfeminism or Cyberhype?" Women's Studies Quarterly: Women Confronting the New Technologies, 29 (3/4 Fall/Winter 2001).
Gender and the politics of cultural representation
Women's literature
Poetry and culture
Early American and US women's writing
Women and race issues
Gender and society
Women and the Popular Culture
Inside Out: Prison, Women, and Performance
Bridges of Power: Contemporary Writing by Women of Color
Contemporary Issues in Feminism
Advanced Methods Seminar
Women, "Race," and Writing
Literature and Psychology of Mothers and Daughters
