Selected Curriculum Vitae

Education

• Ph.D., English, The University of Chicago, l979
• M.A., English, University of New Mexico, l975
• B.A., English, Newcomb College of Tulane University, l973
• Junior Year Honors Student, University of Birmingham, England, 1971-72

Academic Honors

• Ph.D. awarded with English Department honors
• Dissertation, Wordsworth’s Tempered Art: Mode and Style in the Major Poetry, approved with distinction
• Whiting Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, l978-79
• B.A. awarded summa cum laude, honors in English: thesis on Milton’s Samson Agonistes
• George B. Meyer Award and Pierce Butler Prize in English, Newcomb College
• Phi Beta Kappa, Tulane University Chapter
• Gus Mayer Scholarship, Newcomb College (four-year tuition scholarship awarded to a graduate of Orleans Parish Public Schools)

Teaching Experience

• University of Florida, Professor of English; affiliate faculty member of the Center for Jewish Studies and the Center for Research on Women a and Gender , 2000-
• Millsaps College, Professor of English, 1992-2000; Associate Professor, 1986-92, (tenured) and Assistant Professor, 1981-86
• Tufts University, Lecturer in English, 1979-81
• The University of Chicago, Lecturer in English, l978 and Writing Tutor, 1976-78
• University of New Mexico, Teaching Assistant, 1973-75

Administrative Experience at the University of Florida

• Associate Chair and Undergraduate Coordinator, 2005-07
• Interim Director of Jewish Studies, 2005

Administrative Experience at Millsaps College

• Associate Dean, Division of Arts and Letters, 1992-2000
• Chair, Department of English, 1991-92; Acting Chair 1995
• Chair, Division of Language and Literature, 1991-92
• Founding Coordinator, Women’s Studies Concentration, 1989-92
• Director, Ford Fellowship Program, 1989

Post-Doctoral Awards

• Chawton House Library Fellowship, UK spring 2008 (UF sabbatical leave)
• Summer Institute for Women in Higher Education, Bryn Mawr, summer 2007
• University of Florida , CLAS Travel Grant, 2006
• University of Florida, Humanities Enhancement Grant, 2005
• CLAS Travel Grant, Summer 2004 (for presentation and research in the UK)
• Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Oxford University, Skirball Fellowship, spring 2003
• University of Florida, Humanities Enhancement Grant, 2001
• Millsaps Summer Fellowship, 1994
• NEH Travel Grant for research at Wordsworth Library, 1992
• NEH Summer Stipend for “Wordsworth and the Cultivation of Women,” 1990
• NEH Summer Seminars, “Gender and English Romanticism,” UCLA, 1989; “Social Themes in English Literature, 1750-1811,” Northwestern, 1985
• Millsaps Summer Fellowship, 1987
• Ford Foundation Grant for Curriculum Development in Women’s Studies, 1987-88
• Millsaps Summer Research Grants, l982-88, 1993; 1997

Post-Doctoral Honors

• NEH Year-long Fellowship, Alternate for 2002 (not funded)
• CASE Professor of the Year, State of Mississippi, 1990
• Sears Award for Teaching Excellence and Campus Leadership, February 1990
• Millsaps Distinguished Professor Award, 1990
• Stewart Professor of Literature and Language, Millsaps, 1989-92
• Millsaps Lambda Chi Alpha Outstanding Professor Award, 1986
• Millsaps commendations: teaching, scholarship, and college service

University of Florida Service

• Sabbatical Review Committee, CLAS, fall 2007
• Faculty Finance Committee, CLAS, 2006-
• Tenure and Promotion Committee, English Department, 2006-
• Review Committee for CLAS fellowships, fall 2005
• Facutly Co-advisor, British Women Writers Conference, 2005-06
• Associate Chair and Undergraduate Coordinator, 2005-07
• Interim Director, Center for Jewish Studies, 2005
• Graduate Studies Committee, English Department, 2004-05
• Merit Pay Committee, English Department, 2002-04
• Undergraduate Studies Committee, English Department, 2000-04
• Jewish Studies Search Committee forDirector, 2003-04
• Jewish Studies Curriculum Committee, 2003-04
• Chaired Latwaitis Fellowship Committee, Spring 2002