Washington and Lee University
duPont HallPh.D., English, University of Virginia
M.A., English, University of Virginia
B.A., Harvard University
Composition and Literature
Reading Lolita
Poetry
The Widow's Season. Berkley Books, a division of Penguin, forthcoming in 2009. Novel.
One Good Year: Love in a Time of Homeschooling. Harper, forthcoming in 2010. Memoir.
Breaking Out: VMI and the Coming of Women. NY: Pantheon Books, 2000.
Breaking Out: VMI and the Coming of Women. NY: Vintage Books, 2001. Paperback edition with a new afterword.
"Spiderman Summer ," Shenandoah, forthcoming in spring 2008.
"Jane Austen and the Common Reader," Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Spring 1995.
"Society and the Superfluous Female: Jane Austen's Treatment of Widows," Studies in English Literature, Autumn 1994.
"An Interview with Amy Clampitt," The American Poetry Review, August 1987.
Review of Life After Death: Widows and the English Novel, Defoe to Austen, Journal of British Studies, v. 45, no. 4, October 2006.
Novel, The Widow's Season, winner of the 2005 Faulkner Society/Evans Harrington Grant for Best Novel-Progress.
