Department:
English and Foreign Languages
Location:
231 Miller Hall Building
I have taught at FVSU for sixteen years. Prior to that was a graduate instructor at the University of Virginia, while completing the Ph.D. Also taught part-time at George Mason University. Prior to that, for seven years, taught in college preparatory schools in Virginia and New Jersey.
Faculty Bio
Education:
Ph.D., English, University of Virginia
Publications:
-“Strange Bedfellows: D.H. Lawrence and Feminist Psychoanalytic Theory in The Rainbow,” in “The Rainbow” and “Women in Love”: Contemporary Critical Essays. Eds. Gary Day and Libby Di Niro. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2004.
-Now included on University of Virginia Website, my contribution to The English Instructor’s Source Book, departmental teaching manual, U. of Virginia, 1992.
Research Interests:
Dissertation - The Body of Culture: Decadence and Gender in the Novels of D.H. Lawrence, a feminist approach to the novels of D.H. Lawrence, which traces and analyzes Lawrence’s concept of cultural vitality, its relation to the conception of cultural decay—the so-called “feminization” of culture—and the historical and psychological roots of this concept.
