Publications:

Books

Embodied Shame: Uncovering Female Shame in Contemporary Women’s Writings. Albany: SUNY Press, 2009.

Jamaica Kincaid: Writing Memory, Writing Back to the Mother. Albany:

            SUNY Press, 2005.

Quiet As It’s Kept: Shame, Trauma, and Race in the Novels of Toni Morrison.

            Albany: SUNY Press, 2000.

Brutal Choreographies: Oppositional Strategies and Narrative Design in the Novels of

            Margaret Atwood.  Amherst, Mass.: University of Massachusetts Press, 1993.

The Empathic Reader: A Study of the Narcissistic Character and the Drama of the Self.  Amherst, Mass: University of Massachusetts Press, 1989.

Books (edited volumes)

Critical Insights: Margaret Atwood. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, forthcoming 2012.

Margaret Atwood: The Robber Bride, The Blind Assassin, and Oryx and Crake.

          London: Continuum Press, 2011.

Critical Insights: Emily Dickinson. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2010.

Critical Insights: Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2009.

Recent Articles and Book Chapters

“We’re Using up the Earth. It’s Almost Gone”: A Return to the Post-Apocalyptic Future in Margaret Atwood’s The Year of the Flood.” Journal of Commonwealth Literature, forthcoming 2011.

“Negotiating with Margaret Atwood.”  Margaret Atwood: The Robber Bride, The Blind Assassin, and Oryx and Crake.  London: Continuum Press, 2011. 1–17.

“Quiet As It’s Kept: Shame, Trauma, and Race in the Novels of Toni Morrison” (on Song of Solomon). Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon: Bloom’s Modern Critical Interpretations. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York:  Infobase Publishing, 2009. 57-86.

“The Politics of Empathy and Self in Christa Wolf’s The Quest for Christa T. / Die Politik der Empathie und des Selbst in Christa Wolfs Nachdenken uber Christa T. Special edition of the European Self Psychology Journal—Selbstpsychologie: Europäische Zeitschrift für Psychoanalytische Therapie und Forschung: Selobstpsychologie und die Künste 35 (2009): 53-70.

“‘It’s Game Over Forever’: Atwood’s Satiric Vision of a Bioengineered Posthuman Future in Oryx and Crake.”  Margaret Atwood: Bloom’s Modern Critical Views.  Ed. Harold Bloom.  New York: Infobase Publishing, 2009. 93-110.

“Insect Transformation as a Narcissistic Metaphor in Kafka’s Metamorphosis.” Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis.  Bloom’s Modern Critical Interpretations. Ed. Harold Bloom.  New York: Infobase Publishing, 2009.  35-46.

“Like Him and His Own Father before Him, I Have a Line Drawn through Me”: Imagining the Life of the Absent Father in Mr. Potter.”  Jamaica Kincaid: Modern Critical Views.  Ed. Harold Bloom.   New York: Infobase, 2008. 159-74.

“Uncovering ‘the Beloved’ in the Warring and Lawless Women in Toni Morrison’s Love.” Midwest Quarterly 49. 4 (Summer 2008): 358-373.

“‘Teaching English Isn’t the Clean Work It Used to Be’: Satirizing the Plight of Token Professionals in Richard Russo’s Straight Man.”  Academic Novels as Satire: Critical Studies of an Emerging Genre.   Ed. Kimberly Rae Connor and Mark Bosco, S. J.  Lewiston: Mellen Press, 2007. 111-130.

“True Confessions: Uncovering the Hidden Culture of Shame in English Studies.” JAC 25. 4 (2006): 625-50.

“‘Speaking the Unspeakable’: Shame, Trauma and Morrison’s Fiction.” Toni Morrison: Bloom’s Modern Critical Views.  Ed. Harold Bloom.  Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2005.  121-148.

“ ‘It’s Game Over Forever’: Atwood’s Satiric Vision of a Bioengineered Posthuman Future in Oryx and Crake.” Journal of Commonwealth Literature 39.3 (2004): 139-156.

“ Sethe’s ‘Best Thing.’” Toni Morrison’s Beloved.   Ed. Harold Bloom.  Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 2004.  91-101.

“‘A Commemoration of Wounds, Endured and Resented’: Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin as Feminist Memoir.”  Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 44.3 (Spring 2003): 251-69.

“‘You Nothing But Trash’: White Trash Shame in Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina.” Southern Literary Journal   34. 1 (Fall 2001): 101-23.

“The Misogyny of Patriarchal Culture in The Handmaid’s Tale.”  The Handmaid’s Tale: Modern Critical Interpretations.  Ed. Harold Bloom.  Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 2001.  41-62.

“The Edible Woman’s Refusal to Consent to Femininity.”  Margaret Atwood: Modern Critical Views.  Ed. Harold Bloom. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 2000.  71-91.

“‘Quiet as It’s Kept’: Shame and Trauma in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye.”  Scenes of Shame: Psychoanalysis, Shame, and Writing.  Ed. Joseph Adamson and Hilary Clark.  Albany: SUNY Press, 1999.  207-236.

“A Feminist/Psychoanalytic Approach in a Women’s College.”  Approaches to Teaching Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale.  Ed.  Sharon Wilson, Thomas Friedman, and Shannon Hengen.  New York: Modern Language Association, 1996.  122-27. 

“‘Slipping Sideways into the Dreams of Women’: The Female Dream Work of Power Feminism in Margaret Atwood’s The Robber Bride.”  LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory  6 (1995): 149-166.

Offices Held:
Assistant Department Chair, 2002-present
Undergraduate Programs Director, 1998-2001