Washington and Lee University
Payne Hall 23B. A., Rutgers University
Ph.D., Princeton University
Twentieth-century and twenty-first-century poetry in English: sound, voice, performance, gender, community
English 105—Composition and Literature
English 205—Poetic Forms
English 230—Poetry
English 353—20th-Century British Poetry
English 363—American Poetry from 1900-1950
English 364—American Poetry from 1950-Present
Heterotopia. Poems. Winner of the Barrow Street Poetry Book Prize. Forthcoming 2010.
Heathen. Poems. C & R Press, 2009.
Voicing American Poetry. Cornell UP, 2008.
Letters to the World: Poems from Members of the Women's Poetry Listserv. Co-editor with Moira Richards and Rosemary Starace. Red Hen P, 2008.
Scholarship Girl. Poetry chapbook. Finishing Line P, 2007.
The Poetics of Enclosure: American Women Poets from Dickinson to Dove. U of Tennessee P, 2002.
Essay. "Mapping Sea Garden." Approaches to Teaching H.D.'s Poetry and Prose, edited by Annette Debo and Lara Vetter (MLA, forthcoming).
Essay. “Materializing Millay: The 1930s Radio Broadcasts.” In Broadcasting Modernism, ed. Michael Coyle, Debra Rae Cohen, Jane Alison Lewty (University of Florida Press, 2009).
Essay. "Cento for an Anthology of Women Poets." Junctures: A Journal of Thematic Dialogue, June 2008 (10, 129-143). With Ann Fisher-Wirth, Ellen Goldstein, Ann Hostetler, D'Arcy Randall, and Rosemary Starace.
Essay. “Voice and the Visual Poetry of Langston Hughes.” Fieldnotes: A Publication of the Masters in Teaching Program at Bard College, Fall 2007 (3.3.5-11).
Interview. Your Body, Your Breath: An Interview with Janet McAdams. Shenandoah 56.3.141-156 (Winter 2006).
Essay. "Against Usefulness," in "A Muse of Fire: Poetry in Crisis," Editor's Forum, Studies in American Culture 28.2.20-31 (2005).
Essay. "Impostors and Chameleons: Marianne Moore and the Carlisle Indian School." Written with Christopher Gavaler. Paideuma: A Special Issue on H. D. and Marianne Moore, 33.2-3.53-82 (Fall 2004).
Essay. "Both Flower and Flower-Gatherer: Medbh McGuckian's The Flower Master and H.D.'s Sea Garden." Twentieth-Century Literature 49.4. 494-519 (Winter 2003).
Review. "Safe Mischief: The Zones of Paradise by Lynn Powell" (poetry). American Book Review 25.5.1-3 (2004).
Review of Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood (novel). Shenandoah 53.4 (2003).
Review of Verner D. Mitchell's (ed.) This Waiting for Love: Helene Johnson, Poet of the Harlem Renaissance , African American Review 36.2 (2002): 340-2.
Review of Ruth Ellen Kocher's Desdemona's Fire. African American Review 35.2 (2001): 342-3.
Essay. "'Heralding the Clear Obscure': Gwendolyn Brooks and Apostrophe." Callaloo 24.1 (2001).
Review of Medbh McGuckian's Shelmalier and The Wake Forest Book of Contemporary Irish Women Poets. Shenandoah 51.1 (2001).
Essay. "What Death Will Buy: Escaping Gender in Emily Dickinson." Nature, Woman, and the Artifice of Politics. Ed. Eduardo Velasquez. Roman and Littlefield, 2000.
Essay. "Medbh McGuckian's The Flower Master as a Critique of Female Modernism." HOW2 1.3 (2000).
Review Essay. "Attitudes of Mothering: Review of Rita Dove's Mother Love." Critical Matrix 10:1-2 (1996).
Essay. "Rita Dove." Scribner's American Writers Series, Supplement IV (December 1996).
Poetry, Witness, The Journal, The National Poetry Review, Blackbird, Admit Two, Diner, Tupelo Press Poetry Project, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Pearl, The Journal, American Poetry Review, Poemeleon, Poetry Southeast, Prairie Schooner, Agni, Southeast Review, Puerto del Sol, Crab Orchard Review, MARGIE, Barrow Street, storySouth, Spoon River Poetry Review, The Chiron Review, PMS, Phoebe, Sou'wester, Elixir, Nimrod, The Louisville Review, American Writing, Critical Matrix, Northeast Journal, American Standard, SPSM&H, and Interim.
Poetry and Community
Poetry and Performance
Emily Dickinson
African-American Poetry and Poetics
H. D. and T. S. Eliot
Feminist Literary Theory
Lyric and Voice
Major American Women Poets
American Gothic
Poetry and Community in the 21st Century (scholarly study)
Signal to Noise (poems)
