Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2000
M.A. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1991
B.A. University of Dayton, 1988
Articles
Trying a Little Less Tenderness: The Limits of Sentimental Maternalism in The Wide, Wide World and The Lamplighter." Studies in American Fiction 30 (Autumn, 2002): 131-52.
“George Eliot’s Feuerbach: Senses, Sympathy, Omniscience, and Secularism” in George Eliot, Middlemarch: Norton Critical Edition, ed. Ronjaunee Chatterjee (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, forthcoming 2024).
Ph.D. Lehigh University, 2013
M.A. University College Dublin, 2007
B.A. University of Virginia, 2005
Presentations:
“Writing for Real: Using Authentic Writing Tasks to Break Free of the Five-Paragraph Theme.” Richmond Area Schools Professional Development Series. August 28, 2018.
“Teaching Writing in Times of Crisis.” Chautauqua Writers’ Festival: Writing in Times of Crisis. Chautauqua, NY, June 2018.