BA, Colgate University
MA, PhD, New York University
Research and Teaching Interests:
American Literature: Beginnings through the Nineteenth Century
Poetry and Prose of Timothy Dwight
Constructions of Authorship in Early America
Recent Publications:
Co-authored with Michelle Cox. "Supporting Faculty as Writers at a Teaching-Mission Institution," chapter in Working with Faculty Writers, eds. Anne Ellen Geller and Michele Eodice. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2013.
"Timothy Dwight's Surprising Encounters with the Land in Greenfield Hill and Travels in New England and New York." Chapter in Sovereignty, Separatism, and Survivance: Ideological Encounters in the Literature of Native North America, ed. Benjamin Carson. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009.
Timothy Dwight's Travels in New England and New York, Samson Occom's A Short Narrative of My Life, and the Rhetoric of Race." Chapter in Assimilation and Subversion in Earlier American Literature, ed. Robin DeRosa. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006.
"Hugh Henry Brackenridge," "David Humphreys," and "Royall Tyler." Entries in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry [Seven Volumes] edited by Jeffrey H. Gray, James McCorkel, and Mary Balkun. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 2005.