Education
Ph.D., University of Michigan | 1995
M.A., University of Michigan | 1991
B.A., University of Iowa | 1990

Research and Teaching Interests
Medieval and Renaissance literature, literature by women, Dante, science and literature, and environmental studies.

Selected Publications and Presentations
“Silko’s Ceremony as a Core Text: Natural and Unnatural Worlds.” Engaging Worlds: Core Texts and Cultural Contexts: Selected Papers from the Sixteenth Annual Conference of the Association for Core Texts and Courses. Eds. Robert D. Anderson, Molly B. Flynn, and J. Scott Lee. Forthcoming.

“Women and Children in a Fragile Utopia.” Utopian Images and Narratives in Advertising: Dreams for Sale. Eds. Luigi Manca, Alessandra Manca, and Gail Pieper. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2012. 47-68.

“Barred Windows and Uncaged Birds: The Enclosure of Woman in Chrétien de Troyes and Marie de France.” Medieval Feminist Forum 46.2 (2011).

“Who Are We?: Integrating Institutional Core Texts into First-Semester Composition.” The Association for Core Texts and Courses (ACTC) Fourteenth Annual Conference: Plymouth, MA (April 2008).

“Beatrice and Pearl.” Substance, Judgment, and Evaluation: Seeking the Worth of a Liberal Arts, Core Text Education – Selected Papers from the Twelfth Annual Conference of the Association for Core Texts and Courses, Chicago, Illinois, April 6-9, 2006. Eds. Patrick T. Flynn, Jean-Marie Kauth, John Kevin Doyle, and J. Scott Lee. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2010. 55-60.

“The Ancrene Wisse as Core Text.” The Association for Core Texts and Courses (ACTC) Fourteenth Annual Conference: Williamsburg, VA (March/April 2007).

“The Shaping of Dante’s Cosmos.”  Medievalia et Humanistica: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture 32 (2006). 7-24.

“Beatrice and Pearl.” The Association for Core Texts and Courses (ACTC) Thirteenth Annual Conference: Chicago, IL (April 2006).