Personal Information

Education:
University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, A.B. (1974), M.A. (1976); University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Ph.D.(1983);

Teaching and Research Interests:
Victorian Novel; Religious Literary Criticism; William M. Thackeray; the Brontes

Recent Publications:
"Celluloid Satire, or the Moviemaker as Moralist:  Mira Nair's Adaptation of Thackeray's Vanity Fair." (Invited).  In In/Fidelity:  Essays on Film Adaptation.  Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008, pp. 38-59. 
  
"Bronte's Jane Eyre and the Grimms' Cinderella:  Fairy Tale as Feminist Allegory," from Studies in English Literature (Autumn 2000), to be reprinted in a collection of critical articles on Jane Eyre to be edited by Harold Bloom (forthcoming).    

"Teaching Hopkins Without Embarrassment:  Catholic Identity and Intellectual Integrity,@ America 184 (May 21, 2001): 6-11    

"Bronte's Jane Eyre and the Grimms' Cinderella:  Fairy Tale as Feminist Allegory,"  Studies in English Literature 40 (Autumn 2000): 695-710.    

"Thackeray's Barry Lyndon:  An Irony Against Misogynists," reprinted from TSLL (1987), in Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, ed. Joann Cerrito.  Detroit, MI:  Gale Research Inc., 1994.

Books:
Thackeray and Women.  DeKalb, Illinois:  Northern Illinois University Press, 1995.

Works-in-Progress:
Emily Bronte and Mysticism (monograph)

Offices Held:
Director of Undergraduate Programs in English