Biography
Positions Held
- Lecturer, Texas A&M University (Fall 2023)
- Associate Professor of English, Henderson State University (Fall 2010-Spring 2022)
- Assistant Professor of English, Henderson State University (Fall 2005-Spring 2010)
- Lecturer, University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley (Fall 2002-Spring 2005)
Research Interests
- Margaret Fuller and other nineteenth-century American writers
- Gloria Anzaldua and border theory (particularly as applied to other American women writers)
- American women writers and the body
Teaching Interests and Experience
*Graduate Seminars:
American Women Writers to 1900
African American Literature
*Graduate/Undergraduate Courses: Women’s Literature: Borderlands, Identity, and American Women Writers; Romantic Movement in American Literature; American Novel; Survey of African American Literature; Contemporary Women Writers; Introduction to Latinx Literature
*Undergraduate Courses: Survey of American Literature I and II; Survey of Western Literature I and II; Technical Writing; Composition and Rhetoric; Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies
Areas of Interest
- Nineteenth-century American literature (Transcendentalism, Romanticism), women’s literature
Educational Background
- Ph.D., Texas A&M University (2002)
- M.A., Baylor University (1993)
- B.A., Baylor University (1991