Ph.D. Literary Studies (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
M.A. Literary Studies (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
M.A. Education (Reading Specialty) Cardinal Stritch
University
B.A. English (University
of Wisconsin- Milwaukee)
Academic Interests
American Romantics, especially Emily Dickinson & Walt
Whitman
Victorian Women Writers
Scholarly Activity
Conference
Paper
"Passionate Reticence: Emily Dickinson & Brontë's Lucy Snowe" at the Emily Dickinson International
Society Conference in Oxford,
England,
August, 2010
Selected Publications
"The
Back Story: The Christian Narrative & Modernism in Emily Dickinson's Poems" The Emily Dickinson Journal. 27.2
(2008). Print.
"God's Place in Dickinson's
Ecology." Blackwell Companion to Emily Dickinson. Ed.
Mary Loeffleholz and Martha Nell Smith. Malden, MA:
Blackwell, 2008.
Print.
"The American Romantics and
Religion in the Present Tense." Midwest
Quarterly. 47.
4 (Summer 2006). 350-61. Print.
"Finding
Herself Alone: Dickinson, Victorian Women
Writers, and the Female Subject." Romanticism on the
Net. August 2005. Web.
"Reloading
that Gun: Reading an Old Poem As If It Matters" The Hudson
Review. 57.4 (Winter 2005). 537-49.
