Education

    BA  Luther College, 1988, Majors: English and Spanish. Magna Cum Laude
    MA  The University of Kansas, 1992.  English. Honors
    PhD The University of Kansas, 1998.  English

Teaching Experience

    Assistant Professor of English, Wittenberg University, Fall 1998-present
    Lecturer, University of Kansas, Fall 1997-Spring 1998
    Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Kansas, Fall 1989-Fall 1997

Publications

“Forty Acres and a Mule,” Dictionary of American History.  Rev. Ed. New York: Scribners, forthcoming 2002.
“Adultery,” “Marriage Counseling,” “Family Therapy,” (all 2,000-2,500 word entries).  The Family in
    America: An Encyclopedia.  New York: ABC-Clio, forthcoming 2002.
“Adoption” (Vol I: 15-22) and “Orphans / Orphanages” (Vol II: 483-89).  Girlhood in
    America: An Encyclopedia. 2 Volumes.  Ed. Miriam Forman-Brunell,  New York: ABC-Clio, 2001.
“‘The Means of Draining the City of These Children’: Domesticity and Romantic Individualism in
    Charles Loring Brace’s Emigration Plan, 1853-1861.” American Transcendental Quarterly
    12.2 (1998): 145-62.
“Broughton, Virginia W.” and “Drinking Gourd, The.” The Oxford Companion to African American
      Literature.  New York: Oxford UP, 1997.  Pages 100 and 236, respectively.
“Remodeling the Model Home in Uncle Tom's Cabin and  Beloved.” American Literature 64 (1992):
    785-805.
—. Rpt. in Subjects and Citizens: Nation, Race, and Gender from Oroonoko to Anita Hill.
    Eds. Michael Moon and Cathy N. Davidson. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1995.  395-416.
—. Rpt. in A Casebook on Beloved.  Eds. William L. Andrews and Nellie Y. McKay.  New York:
     Oxford UP, 1999.

Review of Act Like You Know: African-American Autobiography and White Identity by Crispin
    Sartwell.  a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, forthcoming 2002.
Review of Dwelling in the Text: Houses in American Fiction by Marilyn Chandler. American
     Literature 64 (1992): 631-32.
Review of Sacred Estrangement: The Rhetoric of Conversion in Modern American Autobiography by
     Peter A. Dorsey, and The Mutilating God: Authorship and Authority in the Narrative of
     Conversion by Gerald Peters. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies 10.1 (Spring 1995): 152-157.

“Difficult Gifts.” Community Journal  49.2 (Summer 2001).

Presentations at Professional Conferences

“Gothic Monsters or Domestic Angels?  Conflicting Mother/Child Subjectivities in Fanny Fern’s
    Revisions of the Urban Sketch.”  Poetics of  Space.  Public Service Center.  Binghamton
    University.  Binghamton NY.  10 March 2000.
“Other People’s Children.” Wittenberg English Department Colloquium.  2 December 1999.
“‘Again Thrown Upon the Public for Sustenance’: Indentured Servitude, Foster Care, and the
     Impoverished Public Sphere in Harriet Wilson’s Our Nig.” Also moderated the panel,
     entitled, “The Slave Narrative Tradition.” Representing Identities: Biography and
     Autobiography: 23rd Annual Colloquium on Modern Language and Film. West Virginia
     University.  Morgantown, WV. 16 October 1998.
“‘The Means of Draining the City of These Children’: Loving Domesticity and Entrepreneurial
     Individualism in Charles Loring Brace's Emigration Plan, 1853-1861.” Annual Meeting of
     the American Studies Association.  Kansas City, MO.  November 1996.

“‘Their Wholly Forgotten Childhood’: Cycles of Domestic, Industrial and Critical Abuse in Moby-
     Dick and The Wide, Wide World.”  Generating Culture: Childhood, Market, State.  Third
     Annual Cultural Studies Conference. Kansas State University. Manhattan, KS. March 1994.
“The Business of Pleasure in Shakespeare's Henry VIII.”  Eighteenth Annual Meeting of the
     Semiotics Society of America.  St. Louis, MO.  October 1993.
“The ‘Business’ of Spirituality: An African American Woman's Spiritual Vocation in the Age of
    Booker T. Washington.”  Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Semiotics Society of America.
    Chicago, IL.  October 1992.
“Virginia Woolf and Friedrich Nietzsche: Decelerating the Modern Reader in A Room of One's Own
     and On the Genealogy of Morals.”  16th Annual Colloquium on Modern Literature and Film.
     The Context of Modernism, 1880-1930.  West Virginia University.  Morgantown, WV.
     September 1991.
 

Grants

“‘The Means of Draining the City of These Children’: Foster Care, Adoption, and Dependent
    Children in American Stories and Culture, 1850-1865.” Faculty Research Grant, Faculty
Research Fund Board, Wittenberg University.  For research conducted at the Children’s Aid
    Society Archives, New York, NY.  Received, Summer 1999.
Professional Enrichment Grant, FDB, Wittenberg University.  Received, Fall 1998.
 

Awards and Honors

Dissertation Fellowship, KU, 1995-96
Phi Kappa Phi, KU, 1996
William Albrecht Memorial Scholarship, KU, 1994-95
     Seldon Lincoln Whitcomb Fellowship for excellence in scholastic research and teaching, KU, 1992
     Kenneth Rockwell Scholarship Award for excellence in the study of literature, KU, 1991
Phi Beta Kappa, Luther College, 1988

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