EDUCATION

B.A., Colgate University
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

ACADEMIC PROFILE

Specializes in American modernism, twentieth-century American fiction and theories of the body. Her most recent book, Lost Bodies: Inhabiting the Margins of Life and Death, will be published by Cornell University Press in 2006.

COURSES

EN143.01 - American Literary History III

EN510.01 - Contemporary American Women Writers

EN654.01- Junior Honors Seminar

EN845.01 - Contemporary Women Writers

EN894.01- American Modernisms

PUBLICATIONS (SELECTED)

• Lost Bodies: Inhabiting the Borders of Life and Death.   Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006.
  Intimate Violence: Reading Rape and Torture in Twentieth-Century Fiction.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994.
  “Intimate Geography: The Body, Race and Space in Larsen’s Quicksand.”       Forthcoming in Texas Studies in Literature and Language.
• “’Looking Back from the Grave’: Sensory Perception and the Anticipation of Absence in Gilead.”  Contemporary Literature.  48.2 (Summer 2007).
• “Bodies in Waiting: Representations of Medical Waiting Rooms in Contemporary American Fiction.” American Literary History.  14.1 (Spring 2002):  115-130.
• “Haunted Images: Photographic Representations of People with AIDS.”  Genre.  29.1-2 (Spring/Summer 1997): 135-159.
• “Death-Watch: Terminal Illness and the Gaze in Sharon Olds’s The Father.”  Mosaic: A journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature.  29.1 (Spring 1996): 103-122.
• “Speaking with ‘Hands at our Throats’: The Struggle for Artistic Voice in The Blithedale Romance.”  Studies in American Fiction 21.1 (Spring 1993): 1-19.
• “Sweet Pain and Charred Bodies: Figuring Violence in The White Hotel.”  Boundary 2: an international journal of literature and culture  18.2 (Summer 1991): 130-149.
• “Reading Rape: Sanctuary and The Women of Brewster Place.”  American Literature 62.4 (December 1990): 559-582.