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Selected Scholarship

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Journal articles

"Found Time: Kairos in A Visit from the Goon Squad." Critique: Studies in Contemporary

Fiction 59:4 (January 2018): 1-10.

‘The Finest Kind of Lady’: Hegemonic Femininity in American Women’s Civil War Narratives.” Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 46:1 (January/February 2017): 1-21.

Gender Trouble in The Long Day.” Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture 1900 to Present 14:1 (Spring 2015).

“The Limits of Newness: Hybridity in Octavia E. Butler’s Fledgling.” Femspec 11.1 (2010): 27-43.

Book chapters

Transcendentalism Online: Asynchronous Discussion in the American Literature Survey,” Teaching Literature in the Online Classroom, MLA Options for Teaching, 2022.

“Teaching with Images: Synthesizing the Civil War in Fact and Fiction,” Teaching the Literatures of the American Civil War, MLA Options for Teaching, 2016.

“The New (Working) Woman in Gilman’s Herland,” Women and Work: The Labors of Self-Fashioning, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011.

 

Teaching guides

Women and the Temperance Movement

Women in the Civil War

Rock 'n Roll: Beginnings to Woodstock

The Awakening by Kate Chopin

Beloved by Toni Morrison

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