Ten-page article on "Elegy" for Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature, Nov. 2006.
Beyond Consolation: Death, Sexuality, and the Changing Shapes of Elegy (Cornell University Press, 1997).
“Beyond Mourning and Melancholia: AIDS Elegies,” Oxford Quarterly (Spring 1997).
"'A Muse Funereal': The Critique of Elegy in Swinburne’s "Ave atque Vale,'" Victorian Poetry, 24, (Summer 1986).
Review of Peter Sacks, "The English Elegy: Studies in the Genre from Spenser to Yeats," MLN, Comparative Literature Issue, 100 (1985).
Book projects in progress:
Immigrant Women Writing in America: Why Poetry?
Poetry, including Queer Poetry
Cultural Memory Studies
Genre of Elegy
Immigrant Writing
Women's Identities in Migration
Immigrant Women Writing
The Poetry and Rhetoric of Love
The Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop
Queer Poetries
