Personal Information

Education:
B.A., University of Michigan (1968); Ph.D., Northwestern University (1974)

Teaching and Research Interests:
Modernism; Magic Realism; Publishing History; Psychoanalytic Theory; Cultural Studies

Recent Publications:
"The German Detour from Ulysses to Magic Realism," Modern Language Quarterly, forthcoming June 2009.

"Why Isn't Lady Chatterley Beautiful?" D. H. Lawrence Review, forthcoming.

"Epilogue: How Poetic Authority Became Authoritarian." Little Magazines and Modernism: New Approaches. Ed. Suzanne W. Churchill and Adam McKible. Hampshire, England: Ashgate Publishing, 2008. 131-147.

"D. H. Lawrence: Women in Love." A Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture, Ed. David Bradshaw and Kevin J. H. Dettmar. Maldin, MA: Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2006. 393-401.

"Sex Isn't Everything (But It Can Be Anything): The Symbolic Function of Extremity in Modernism." College Literature 32 (2004): 164-183.

Books:
Who Paid for Modernism? Art, Money, and the Fiction of Conrad, Joyce, and Lawrence. Fayetteville: U of Arkansas P, 1997.

Work-in-Progress:
"Beyond the Body: From Modernism to Magic Realism"; "Representing Violence in a Secular Age"

Offices Held:
Chair of the English Department; Director of the Honors Program, College of Arts and Sciences