Ph.D. Cornell University
Associate Professor, Department of English
Scholarship:
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?
Interests:
Poetry, including Queer Poetry
Cultural Memory Studies
Genre of Elegy
Immigrant Writing
Courses Taught:
Women's Identities in Migration
Immigrant Women Writing
The Poetry and Rhetoric of Love
The Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop
Queer Poetries
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