Education

PhD, Brandeis
MA, University of Virginia
BA, College of Notre Dame of Maryland

Area(s) of Specialty

18th-Century Poetry
Pope
18th-Century Women Writers

Contact Information

Office: C202 Tribble
Phone: (336) 758-5375
Email

Courses Taught at WFU

ENG 160 - Introduction to British Literature
ENG 165 - Studies in British Literature
ENG 300: Seminar in the Major
ENG 330 - Restoration & Eighteenth-Century British Literature
ENG 336 - Restoration & Eighteenth-Century British Drama
ENG 737 - Studies in Eighteenth-Century British Poetry
HON 131: Approaches to Human Experience

Selected Publications

More Solid Learning": New Perspectives on Alexander Pope's Dunciad, with Catherine Ingrassia, eds. (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2000)

Alexander Pope and His Eighteenth Century Women Readers, Southern Illinois University Press, 1994.

“Gendering Satire: Behn to Burney,” A Companion to Satire from the Biblical World to the Present, ed. Reuben Quintero (Blackwell, 2007), 276-92.

"Living on the Margin: Alexander Pope and the Rural Ideal," Studies in the Literary Imagination, 38 (Spring 2005), 15-38.

“Classical and Biblical Models: The Female Poetic Tradition,” Women and Poetry, 1660-1750, eds. Sarah Prescott and David E. Shuttleton ( Houndmills, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), 183-202.