EMPLOYMENT
2018-present. Full Professor, Department of English, University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
2010-2018. Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
2001-2008. Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
EDUCATION
1998. Ph.D. American Literature, Indiana University
1996. The School of Criticism and Theory, Dartmouth College.
1990. M.A., English Literature, Washington University in St. Louis.
1988. B.A., magna cum laude, English Literature; Economics, Washington University.
PUBLICATIONS
2024. Closely, Consciously Reading Feminism: Reading and the U.S. Women’s Liberation Movement. University of Massachusetts Press.
2022. “Culture Clubs.” Aydelotte Foundation. https://aydelotte.swarthmore.edu/publications/. March 2022.
2021. “Who Do You Think You Are When You Read?” Guest editor introduction to special issue.
2018. Rev. of Celebrity Audiences (Holmes, Ralph, and Barker, eds.) New York: Routledge, 2016. Reception 10 (Spring 2018).
2017. “Middlebrow Patriotism, Neighborly Reading.” In Faulkner and Print Culture. Jay Watson and Jaime Harker, eds. University Press of Mississippi. Invited.
2017. “Jane Eyre, Identified.” Reception 9 (Spring 2017).
2016. Rev. of Words Onscreen. Naomi Baron. Reception 8 (Fall 2016): 99-101.
2016. “Closely, Consciously Reading Women.” In This Book is an Action: Feminist Print Culture and Activist Aesthetics. Cecilia Konchar Farr and Jaime Harker, eds. University of Illinois Press, 2016. Invited.
2014. Rev. of Reading Beyond the Book: The Social Practices of Contemporary Literary Culture (Fuller and Sedo, eds.). Reception 6 (Fall 2014): 79-81.
2013. “Kindling, Reading, Disappearing.” A special issue on “The Literary.” Jessica Swanstrom and Lisa Pressman, eds. Digital Humanities Quarterly 7.1 (2013). Refereed. Digital. http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/7/1/index.html.
2013. “Reading, Feeling, Faulkner.” Mississippi Quarterly 66.1 (Summer 2013). Special Issue, Jaime Harker and Jay Watson, eds. Invited.
2012. Rev. of Reading Is My Window (Megan Sweeney). Reception 4 (Fall 2012). Digital. http://receptionstudy.org/journal-volume-4.
2010. “The Magical Matter of Books: Amazon.com and The Tales of Beedle the Bard.” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 35.2 (Summer 2010): 190-207. Refereed.
2009. “Native Sons and Native Speakers: On the Eth(n)ics of Comparison” (reprint). In Contemporary Literary Criticism. Volume 274 (CLC-274). Jeff Hunter, ed. Detroit: Gale, 2009. 227-237. Solicited.
2008. “Academic Disidentifications” (reprint). In Contemporary Literary Criticism. Volume 260 (CLC-260). Jeff Hunter, ed. Detroit: Gale, 2008. Solicited.
2008. “The Point of the Matter.” Rev. of Punctuation: Art, Politics, and Play. symploke. 16. 1-2 (Winter 2008). Solicited.
2008. “The Romance of Reading like Oprah.” In The Oprah Affect, Cecilia Konchar Farr and Jamie Harker, eds. New York: SUNY Press, 2008.
2006. “Academic Positions.” Rev. of Calling Cards: Theory and Practice in the Study of Race, Gender, and Culture. symploke. 14. 1-2 (Winter 2006): 335-6. Solicited.
2006. “Native Sons and Native Speakers: On the Eth(n)ics of Comparison.” PMLA. 121.5 (October 2006): 1460-1474. Refereed.
2005. “Timing the Academy.” Rev. of Office Hours. symploke. 13. 1-2 (Winter 2005): 335-6. Solicited.
2005. “Chang Rae Lee.” Dictionary of Literary Biography/Asian American Writers. Volume 312. Deborah Madsen, Ed. New York: Thomson Gale, 2005. 186-190. Solicited.
2004. “Academic Disidentifications.” Profession 2004. 107-117. Refereed.
2004. “Laughing with Medusa.” Rev. of Swamp Songs. National Women’s Studies Association Journal. 16.3 (Fall 2004): 220-221. Solicited.
2003. “Doing Things with Ethics: Beloved, Sula, and the Reading of Judgment.” Modern Fiction Studies. 49.4 (Winter 2003): 780-805. Winner of the Margaret Church Best Mfs Essay Award, 2003. Refereed.
2002. “A Doubled Reconstruction.” Rev. of The History of Southern Women’s Literature. Caroline Perry and Mary Louise Weaks, eds. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002, xiii, 689 pp. Louisiana History. 44.1:124-126. Solicited.
2002. “African-American Studies: A Doubled Discipline.” Edinburgh Guide to Post-War Literary Criticism, Edinburgh University Press, 2002. 567-574. Solicited.
1997. “Thinking Feminist Thought.” Surfaces. 7.115 (1997): 4-10. Refereed.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2025. “The Not-So Visible Reading Life of Alice Walker’s Meridian.” MLA. New Orleans, LA.
2024. “Reading Under Pressure.” Society for Textual Scholarship. Tulsa, OK.
2024. “Absent Reading in the Work of Maxine Hong Kinston.” MELUS. Dallas, TX.
2023. “Counter Reading and Feminist Review Culture, Women’s Liberation Style.” Reception Study Society. Albuquerque, NM.
2022. “Burning (with) Questions: Fictional Memoirs of the Women’s Liberation Movement.” National Women’s Studies Association (virtual).
2022. “Reading in the Deep.” The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture (virtual).
2022. “Culture Clubs.” MLA. Washington, D.C. (virtual)
2020. “Bad Reading in the Era of Trump.” MLA. Seattle, WA.
2020. “A Modernist Feminist Good.” Feminist Intermodernist Association. Chicago, IL.
2019. “Just How Did Madwoman Read?” Reception Studies Society. Provo, UT.
2019. “Who Do You Think You Are?” (invited). “The Devil We Know and the Devil We Don’t: Academic Keywords at Twenty, Critical University Studies, and the State of American Higher Education.” MLA. Chicago, IL.
2018. “Kate Millett, Close Reader.” Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture. Madison, WI.
2017. “Identification Matters: One Legacy of The Resisting Reader.” MLA. New York City, NY.
2017. “Networking, Reading, and the Business of Women’s Writing.” 15th Annual Books, Publishing & Libraries conference. London, England.
2016. “Close Reading of the Feminist Kind.” History of the Humanities V. Baltimore, MD.
2015. “I Spy Women Reading.” Reception Studies Society. Fort Wayne, IN.
2015. “What’s so Wrong with Women Readers?” Society for the Study of Women Writers. Philadelphia, PN.
2015. “Middlebrow Patriots and Neighborly Readers.” Faulkner and Print Culture. Oxford, MS.
2015. “Returning to Close Reading?” College English Association. Indianapolis, IN.
2015. “Reading Adaptation.” Modern Language Association. Vancouver, Canada.
2014. “Viral Receptions” (invited). MMLA. Detroit, MI.
2014. “Feminism’s Closeness” (invited). National Women’s Studies Association. Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
2014. “Good Friends and Good Reading” (invited). Inventing the Middlebrow. Minneapolis, MN.
2013. “Closely, Consciously Reading Feminism.” SCMLA. Special Session, “Just How Close is Close Reading?” New Orleans, LA.
2013. “The Closeness of Feminist Reading.” Reception Studies Society. Milwaukee, WI.
2013. “Constant Reading in E-Time.” MLA. Boston, MA.
2012. “Closely, Consciously Reading Women.” Protest on the Page. Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture. Madison, WI.
2011. “Not So Friendly Reading.” MMLA. St. Louis, MO.
2011. “Friendly Reading.” Popular Culture Association. San Antonio, TX.
2011. “Kindling, Reading, Disappearing.” The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900. Louisville, KY.
2011. “Virtual Reading on Amazon.com.” MLA. Los Angeles, CA.
2011. Respondent for Reception Studies Society session (invited), MLA. Los Angeles, CA.
2010. “Disciplinary Grace.” An invited presentation at a conference honoring Susan Gubar. Bloomington, IN.
2009. “Reading (in) South Africa: Oprah and the Cause for Books.” MLA. Philadelphia, PA.
2009. “Magic Materiality.” SCMLA. Baton Rouge, LA.
2009. “Amazon Matters” (invited). Reception Studies Society. Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.
2009. “The Magical Matter of Books: Amazon.com and The Tales of Beedle the Bard.” Children’s Literature Association. Charlotte, NC.
2009. “The Flavor of Footnotes.” The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900. Louisville, KY.
2009. “Kindling, Reading.” College Book Art Association. Iowa Center for the Book. Des Moines, IA.
2008. “Supplementing Shakespeare?” American Folklore Society. Louisville, KY.
2008. “A Feeling For Faulkner: Reading an Archive of Response.” American Comparative Literature Association. San Diego, CA.
2007. “A Taste for the Well-Read Life.” MMLA. Cleveland, OH.
2007. “Girls Not on Film.” Teachers, Teaching, and Film. College of Charleston. Charleston, SC.
2006. “Oprah Signifyin’ Faulkner.” Fletcher Conference. Houma, LA.
2006. “Readerly Identifications.” American Comparative Literature Association. Princeton University. Princeton, NJ.
2006. “The Ethnic Melancholic Academic” (invited). Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States. Boca Raton, FL.
2006. “Trouble on Campus: Ethnicity and the Academic Novel” (invited). Twentieth Century Conference in Literatures and Languages. Louisville, KY.
2005. “Oprah’s House of Literature.” Elisions and Collisions: A Special Conference on the Popular and the Literary. Madison, WI.
2005. “Undisciplined Comparisons.” American Comparative Literature Association. State College, PA.
2004. “Literature and the Monumentalization of Trauma.” MLA. Philadelphia, PA.
2004. “Reading with Oprah.” SCMLA. New Orleans, LA.
2004. “Asian American Promises.” Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States. San Antonio, TX.
2003. “Native Psychoanalysis.” SCMLA. Hot Springs, AK.
2003. “Promising Dilemmas.” International Conference on Ethics and Ethnicity. La Coruna, Spain.
2003. “Interethnic Domesticity.” Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States. Boca Raton, FL.
2003. “Comparative Dangers?” American Comparative Literature Association. San Diego, CA.
2002. “Disorientation, Disidentification, Interpellation.” SCMLA. Austin, TX.
2002. “Ethnic Intertextualities.” The Society for the Study of Narrative. East Lansing, MI.
2001. “Resisting Literature.” SCMLA. Tulsa, OK.
2001. “Passing Modernism.” Modernist Studies Association. Rice University. Houston, TX.
2001. “Facing Ethics.” American Comparative Literature Association. Boulder, CO.
2001. “The Multicultural as Gothic: Anzaldua’s Borderlands/La Frontera.” NEMLA. Hartford, CT.
2000. “Disciplinary Nominations.” MLA. Washington, D.C.
2000. “Identity Ethics.” The Society for the Study of Narrative. Atlanta, GA.
2000. “Ethnic Acts and the Ethics of Identity.” Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States. Tulane University. New Orleans, LA.
2000. “The Institute of Deconstruction.” American Comparative Literature Association. Yale University. New Haven, CT.
1999. “Literature Calling.” MMLA. Minneapolis, MN. November 1999.
1999. “Disciplinary Promises, Promising Disciplines.” Deconstruction Reading Politics. Staffordshire University. Staffordshire, U.K.
1999. “The Force of Truth.” American Philosophical Association. “Author Meets Critics” session with Judith Butler. Berkeley, CA.
1998. “Ethnic Acts, Ethical Lines.” Performing Diasporas: Movements, Mediations and Meanings. Lawrence, KS.
1997. “Weighty Matters: Literature and its Performative Effects.” New York College English Association. Rochester, NY.
1997. “Thinking (through) the Performative.” American Comparative Literature Association. Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
1996. “Doing Things with Ethics: Beloved, Sula, and the Reading of Judgment.” National American Women Writers of Color Conference. Salisbury State University. Ocean City, MD.
1996. “Performativity and the Postcolonial.” Annual Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference. Georgia Southern University. Statesboro, GA.
1995. “Cinematic Colonialisms, Colonizing Cinemas.” National American Women Writers of Color Conference. Salisbury State University. Ocean City, MD.
1995. “Impossible Postcolonialisms.” Annual Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference. Georgia Southern University. Statesboro, GA.
1995. “Beyond Ethics and Genre? Sula, Beloved, and the Question of Collective Agency.” 1st Annual Conference on Toni Morrison. Bellarmine College. Louisville, KY.
1995. “Prefatory Seductions.” 18th and 19th Century Conference on Women’s Literature. University of Notre Dame. South Bend, IN.
1993. “A Way with Looking.” MMLA. Minneapolis, MN.
1993. “Representability and the Figure in Theory.” 20th-Century Literature Conference. University of Louisville. Louisville, KY.
1992. “Figures of Violence: Feminism, Deconstruction, and the Rhetoric of Representability.” Violent Desire and Desiring Violence. Indiana University. Bloomington, IN.
1992. “The Business of Violence: Blade Runner and the Female Replicant.” 20th Century Literature Conference. University of Louisville. Louisville, KY.
PANELS MODERATED/ORGANIZED
2020. Organizer of “Authors Made and Remade.” MLA. Seattle, WA.
2018. Co-organizer of “Insecure Receptions.” MLA. New York City, NY.
2017. Organizer of “Feminist Publishing.” 15th Annual Books, Publishing & Libraries conference. London, England.
2015. Organizer and Chair of “The Uses of Reading.” Society for the Study of Women Writers. Philadelphia, PA.
2015. Organizer and Chair of “Adaptation: Audiences, Entertainment, and Meaning.” Modern Language Association. Vancouver, Canada.
2013. Organizer and Chair of “Just How Close is Close Reading?” South Central Modern Language Association. New Orleans, LA.
2012. “The Closeness of Close Reading: A Symposium.” University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Co-organized with Elizabeth Bobo and Maia Butler.
2011. “Professions of the Book: A Symposium.” University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Co-organized with Elizabeth Bobo.
2003. Organizer of “The Difference of Ethnic Intertextuality.” American Comparative Literature Association. San Diego, CA.
2001. Organizer of “Between Loyalty and Responsibility.” American Comparative Literature Association. University of Colorado at Boulder. Boulder, CO.
2000. Co-organizer with Naomi Silver of “Disciplinary Logics.” American Comparative Literature Association. Yale University. New Haven, CT.
1999. Co-organizer with Jack Musselman of “Author Meets Critics” session. American Philosophical Association. Berkeley, CA.
1997. Co-organizer with Naomi Silver of “Inventing Pasts/Pasts Inventions: Critical Perspectives on Genealogies.” American Comparative Literature Association. Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
1994. Organizer/Chair of “A Politics of Post(ing).” Midwestern Modern Language Association. Chicago, IL.
1991. Chair for “In Circulation: Postmodern Contingencies,” 20th Century Literature Conference. University of Louisville. Louisville, KY.
INVITED TALKS
2024. “What’s So Wrong with Women Reading?” University of Texas/Dallas, March 2024.
2023. “Who Do You Think You Are?” Anti-Racist Education Series. Hilliard Museum. Lafayette, Louisiana.
2022. “What’s So Wrong with Women Reading?” Gloria Fiero Lecture. University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana.
2016. “In the Service of Reading.” Keynote talk. Society for Textual Studies. Ottawa, Canada.
2013. “Just How Close is Close Reading?” Master Class. Department of English, Rice University
2006. “Oprah’s House of Literature.” Humanities Mini-Lecture Series. March 2006.
2006. “Theory is Teaching.” Guest Lecture, ENGL675. University of Louisiana at Lafayette, September 2006.
2005. “Theory and Literature, Otherwise.” Guest Lecture, ENGL380. University of Louisiana at Lafayette, September 2005.
2005. “Loading the Canon with the Harlem Renaissance.” Smithsonian Institute Lecture. Lafayette, Louisiana. September 2005.
2005. “The Harlem Renaissance: Writers on Writing.” Smithsonian Institute Lecture. Lafayette, Louisiana. September 2005.
2004. “Theory and Literature and Back Again.” Guest Lecture, ENGL596. University of Louisiana at Lafayette, October 2004.
2003. “Archive Fever in Chilly Canada.” Guest Lecture, ENGL596. University of Louisiana at Lafayette, October 2003.
2003. “Reading Spaces, Women Reading.” Dupre Faculty Lecture Series. University of Louisiana at Lafayette, March 2003.
2001. “The Violent, the Domestic, the Literary.” Symposium on Globalization and Violence. University of Louisiana at Lafayette, October 2001.
2000. “Feminist Manifestations.” Sigma Tau Delta/English Honors Society, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, March 2000.P
1999. “Pretty in Pink: Feminism, Style, and the Question of Politics.” Sigma Tau Delta/English Honors Society, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, September 1999.
1998. “Love in the Time of Ethics.” Introduction to Afro-American Studies, Indiana University, October 1998.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
2019- Advisory Board, the Publishing Studies Research Network (Information, Medium and Society)
2019- Book Review Editor, Reception
2012- Executive Board, Reception Studies Society
2012- Reader, Reception Studies journal
2011- Editorial Board, Technoculture
2011- Reader, Digital Humanities Quarterly
2011- Reader, Technoculture
2009-. Reader, PMLA
2009-. Reader, African American Review
2008-. Reader, Contemporary Literature
2004-. Reader, MFS
2004-. Reader, MELUS
2001-. Editorial Board, Journal of International Women’s Studies
2000-. Reader, College Literature
1999-. Editorial Board, The Journal of Mundane Behavior
1998. Co-Coordinator, Associate Instructor Workshop on Campus Climate, Office of Academic Affairs, Indiana University
1995-6. Editorial Assistant, Genders
1995-6. Co-coordinator, Writing Tutorial Services, Indiana University
1994-5. Assistant Conference Organizer, “Feminism Beside Itself”
1992-6. Tutor, Writing Tutorial Services, Indiana University
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, HONORS
2023-2024. Recipient of UL Sustainable Development Research Grant.
2023. Recipient of UL Research Travel Grant, Reception Study Society. Albuquerque, NM.
2020. Recipient of UL Research Travel Grant, MLA. Seattle, WA.
2019. Recipient of UL Research Travel Grant, MLA. Chicago, IL.
2018-2019. Wikipedia Fellow.
2017. Recipient of UL Research Travel Grant, MLA. New York City, NY.
2016. Recipient of UL Research Travel Grant, History of the Humanities V. Baltimore, MD.
2016. Recipient of Mary Lily Research Grant, Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture, Duke University.
2015. Recipient of UL Research Travel Grant, Modern Language Association. Vancouver, Canada.
2015. Recipient of research grant, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections, University of Virginia.
2014. Recipient of UL Research Travel Grant, National Women’s Studies Association. Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
2013. Recipient of UL Research Travel Grant, MLA, Boston, MA.
2012. Recipient of UL Research Travel Grant, Protest on the Page. Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture. Madison, WI.
2010. Recipient of ATLAS Board of Regents Grant.
2006. Summer Research Award, University of Louisiana.
2005. Finalist, Hedgebrook Women Writers Retreat.
2004. Summer Research Award, University of Louisiana.
2003. SCMLA Research Travel Grant.
2002. Summer Research Award, University of Louisiana.
1996. James A. Work Award (Outstanding Graduate Student), Department of English, Indiana University.
1996. Conference Grant, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University.
1995. Fellowship, School of Criticism and Theory, Dartmouth College.
1994. Travel Grant, Department of English, Indiana University.
SERVICE
University
2023- COLA Dean Search committee, co-chair
2019- University Graduate Appeals Committee, chair
2017- University Graduate Appeals Committee
2012- University Program Review Committee
2008-2010. Graduate Council
College
2010-2013 Honors Convocation Committee
2001-2006. Peer Review Committee
2001- Women’s Studies Committee
Department
2023-2024 Member, Search Committee, Indigenous Literature
2022-2023 Chair, Search Committee, Black Literature
2020- Member, Personnel Committee
2019- Member, Graduate Advisor pool
2019-2022 Chair, Graduate Faculty Committee
2019-2020 Co-chair, Graduate Course Offerings Committee
2019. Co-chair, Search Committee (VAP, American literature)
2018-2020. Member, Graduate Teaching Literature Mentor
2017. Chair, Search Committee, American literature
2016-2018. Chair, Graduate Curriculum Committee
2013-2015. Member, Ph.D. exam committee
2012-2014 Chair, Personnel Committee
2009-2012. Member, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee
2009-2011. Member, Graduate Course Offerings Committee
2009-10. Chair, Ethnic Studies Search Committee
2007-09. Member, Personnel Committee
2008-09. Member, Ethnic Studies Search Committee
2007-08. Chair, Ethnic Studies Search Committee
2006-2008. Member, Undergraduate Majors Committee
2005-2008. Member, Diversity Committee
2004-08. Graduate Coordinator
2001-03. Chair, Ph.D. exam committee
Community
2023 Poetry Out Loud judge, ACA
2022 Poetry Out Loud judge, ESA
2020- Move the Mindset, documentary co-producer
2020- Move the Mindset, member
2014-2016 President, Library Board of Control, Lafayette Parish.
2013. Judge, Debate Tournament, Lafayette High School.
2013-2014. Vice President, Library Board of Control, Lafayette Parish.
2010-. Member, Library Board of Control, Lafayette Parish. [2nd term ends 2020]
2002-09. Panelist, Louisiana Division of the Arts (Literature fellowship).
STUDENT THESES & DISSERTATIONS & PH.D. EXAMS
2023-2024 Ember Johnson, Ph.D., dissertation reader
2024- Evangeline Han, Ph.D. exams (secondary?)
2024- Karleigh Peoples, Ph.D. exams (?)
2024- Sandy Brack, Ph.D. exams (secondary)
2024- Benjamin Porter, Ph.D. exams (secondary)
2024- Eden Sliman, M.A. thesis chair
2024- Morsehdul Arifin, M.A. thesis reader
2023- Nashia Karim, Ph.D. exams (secondary)
2023- Alice Wilson, M.A. thesis reader
2023-2024 Renee Champagne, M.A. thesis reader
2023- Kyrsten Householder, Ph.D., dissertation reader
2023- Taylor Decuir, M.A. thesis reader
2023- Sarah Meador, Ph.D. exams (secondary)
2023- Ladi Opaluwa, Ph.D. exams (secondary)
2023- Nonah Palmer, Ph.D. exams (secondary)
2022-2024 Camille Duhon, M.A., thesis chair
2022-2023 Meredith McKinnie, Ph.D., dissertation reader
2022-2024 Melanie Johnson, Ph.D., dissertation reader
2022-2023 Nott Francis, M.A. exams
2022-2023 Dora Holland, Ph.D. exams (secondary) and dissertation reader
2021-2022 Alyssa Beckitt, Ph.D. exams (secondary) and dissertation reader
2021-2022 Sydney Doyle, Ph.D., dissertation reader
2021-2024 B.J. Flowers, Ph.D. exams (secondary) and dissertation reader
2021-2023 Emily Vega, Ph.D., dissertation reader
2021-2022 Kym Cunningham, Ph.D., dissertation reader
2021-2022 Wes Jamison, Ph.D., dissertation reader
2021-2022 Em Tielman, Ph.D., dissertation reader
2020-2022 Joseph Worthen, Ph.D., dissertation, reader
2019-2021 Clinton Craig, Ph.D, dissertation, reader
2019-2020 William Dellinger, M.A., thesis, reader
2019- Caitlin Marshall, M.A., thesis, chair
2018-2020 Samantha Castleman, Ph.D, dissertation, reader
2018-2019 Danny Garrett, M.A., thesis chair
2018-2019 Marissa Zerangue, M.A., thesis chair
2018-2019 Jessica Doble, Ph.D., dissertation, chair
2018-2020 Kimberly Southwick-Thomspon, dissertation reader
2017-2018 Courtney Bodin, M.A., thesis reader
2017-2020 Sarah Gawronski, Ph.D., dissertation reader
2016-2017 Stephanie Marker, Ph.D., dissertation reader
2015-2016 Cidra Jackson, M.A., thesis, reader
2015- Lizzy Oxler, Ph.D., dissertation, reader
2014-2015 Paul Albano, Ph.D., dissertation, reader
2014- Lauren Trosclair, M.A., thesis, reader
2014- Sami Richardson, Ph.D., dissertation, reader
2014-2016 Maia Butler, Ph.D., dissertation, reader
2014-2018 Cheyenne Comer, Ph.D., dissertation, chair
2014-2015 Phillip Suire, M.A., thesis, reader
2014-2015 Heather Degeyter, M.A., thesis, reader
2014-2015 Patrick Key, M.A., thesis, reader
2014- Matt Sackmann, Ph.D., dissertation, reader
2013- Shannon Cummings, Ph.D., dissertation, reader
2013-2014 Brett Carol Young, Ph.D., dissertation, reader
2011- Corey Green, Ph.D. dissertation, chair
2011-13. Wayne Arnold, Ph.D. dissertation, chair
2010-11. Maia Butler, M.A. thesis, chair
2009-11. Geoffrey Elliott, Ph.D. dissertation, reader
2009-11. Cassandra Peay, Ph.D. dissertation, reader
2009-10. Meagan Cass, Ph.D. dissertation, reader
2009-10. Brendon Vayo, Ph.D. dissertation, reader
2009-12. Bridget Whelan, Ph.D. dissertation reader
2008-09. Lesli Price, M.A. thesis, reader
2007-08. Michael Walonen, Ph.D. dissertation, chair
2007-08. John Lavelle, Ph.D. dissertation, reader
2007-. Ari Adipurwawidjana, Ph.D. dissertation, reader
2006-07. Geoffrey Elliott, M.A. thesis, reader
2005-07. Brandy Harvey, Ph.D. dissertation, chair
2005-07. Kevin Moberly, Ph.D. dissertation, co-chair
2004-06. Amy Clary, Ph.D. dissertation, chair
2003-05. Larry Singleton, Ph.D. dissertation, reader
2003-04. Parvathy Anantnarayan, Ph.D. dissertation, chair
2002-03. Jared Pearce, Ph.D. dissertation, reader
2001-02. Kristi Pope Key, Ph.D. dissertation, reader
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
Book history
African-American literature
Asian-American literature
Post-colonial literature and theory
Literary theory, particularly deconstruction, feminism, psychoanalysis
Women’s Studies
Cultural Studies