Education

• Ph.D., The University of Georgia
• B.A., Miami University of Ohio

Research & Academic Interests

• Late nineteenth & twentieth century American fiction
• Women writers
• Multicultural writers
• Expatriate writers in Paris

Publications

• Transcending the New Woman: Multiethnic Narratives in the Progressive Era (University of Missouri Press, 2009)
• Critical Introduction and notes for What Diantha Did, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Duke University Press, 2005)
• Articles in journals including Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, The Edith Wharton Review, and The Southern Quarterly
• Essays in two critical volumes: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Her Contemporaries: Literary and Intellectual Contexts (University of Alabama Press, 2004) and Charlotte Perkins Gilman: New Texts and New Contexts (Ohio State University Press, 2011)

Associations, Affiliations & Work History

• Society for the Study of American Women Writers
• Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States

• Kentucky Institute for International Studies

Awards & Accolades

• EKU Foundation Professor Award
• Sheltowee Distinguished Service Award (EKU Honors Program)
• 2023-24 Teaching & Learning Annual Themed Award: Workforce & Employability Skills