University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Ph.D. in English, 1984-89.
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
M.A. in English, 1982-84.
B.A. with High Honors in English, 1978-82.
Assistant Professor of English, University of Florida, 1989-1997.
Associate Professor of English, University of Florida, 1997 - .
20th century literature and culture (American & British), poetry, women’s literature, literature and visual culture
Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2007-08.
Sabbatical, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Florida, 2002.
Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Grant, University of Florida, 2007, 2000.
Research Development Award, University of Florida, 1992, 1990.
Phi Beta Kappa, 1982.
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching, University of Florida, 2004-2005, 2001-02, 1990-91.
Mentor, UF Scholars Program, 1999.
Teaching Incentive Program (TIP) Award, University of Florida, 1996, 1993.
Reviewed in International Review of Modernism 2.1 (Fall/Winter 1998): 20-22.
Visual Anthropology 15.1 (Spring/Summer 1999): 78-80.
Excerpted in The Isherwood Century, ed. James Berg and Chris Freeman, (U. Wisconsin Press 2000; paperback 2001; Lambda Literary Award for Gay Studies, 2001).
Photo-Textualities: Reading Photographs and Literature, ed. Marsha Bryant. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1996.
Reviewed in Modern Language Review 93.2 (1998): 490-91.
“Counter-Intuitive Innovation,” in the forum “Making It New: Innovative Approaches to Teaching Modernism,” Modernism/modernity 16.3. (September 2009): 482-84.
“Graduate Student Mentoring: A Poetics,” forthcoming in Poetry, Politics, and the Profession: Cary Nelson and the Struggle for the University, SUNY Press, 2009. 187-92.
“Excavating H.D.’s Egypt,” co-authored with Mary Ann Eaverly, forthcoming in the MLA Approaches to Teaching H.D.’s Poetry and Prose.
“Egypto-modernism: James Henry Breasted, H.D., and the New Past,” co-authored with Mary Ann Eaverly, Modernism/modernity 14.3 (September 2007): 435-53.
“Ariel’s Kitchen: Plath, Ladies’ Home Journal, and the Domestic Surreal,” in The Unraveling Archive: Essays on Sylvia Plath, ed. Anita Helle, U. of Michigan Press, 2007. 211-35.
“Displaced Artist Statements, Reluctant Artist-Researchers: Poet-Editors of Women’s Poetry Anthologies,” Open Letter 13.4 (Fall 2007): 45-63. (special issue: Artist Statements and the Nature of Artistic Inquiry, ed. Rachel Nash and W. F. Garrett-Petts).
“Brooks, Ebony, and Postwar Race Relations,” American Literature 79.1 (March 2007): 113-141.
“Sitwell Beyond the Semiotic: Gender, Race & Empire in Façade,” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, 26.2 (Fall 2007): 243-67.
“Classical Tourism in Debora Greger’s Poetry,” co-authored with Mary Ann Eaverly. Mosaic 37.3 (September, 2004): 67-91.
“IMAX Authorship: Teaching Plath and Her Unabridged Journals,” Pedagogy 4.2 (Spring 2004): 241-61.
“Plath, Domesticity, and the Art of Advertising,” College Literature 29.3 (Summer 2002 special issue on Literature & Art): 17-34.
“W. H. Auden and the Homoerotics of the 1930s Documentary,” Mosaic 30.2 (June 1997): 69-92.
Reprinted in Caverns of Night: Coal Mines in Art, Literature, and Film (University of South Carolina Press, 2000).
“Photo-Graphic Pedagogies: Bringing Photography into the English Department Classroom,” in Integrating Visual and Verbal Literacies, Ed. W. F. Garrett-Petts and Donald Lawrence. Winnipeg, Manitoba: Inkshed Publications, 1996. 76-100.
“Auden and the ‘Arctic Stare’: Documentary as Public Collage in Letters from Iceland,” Journal of Modern Literature 17.4 (1991; published 1994), 537-65.
Rev. of Stan Smith, ed, The Cambridge Companion to W. H. Auden. Auden Society Newsletter 26 (December 2005): 25-28.
Rev. of Albert Gelpi’s Living in Time: The Poetry of C. Day Lewis. Modern Philology 99.1 (August 2001): 161-65.
Rev. of John Fuller’s W. H. Auden: A Commentary. International Review of Modernism 3.1 (Fall/Winter 1999): 20-22.
Response to Marjorie Perloff’s review of Cary Nelson’s anthology, Modern American Poetry. symplokē, 9:1-2 (2001): 176-77.
"The Films of Paul Strand." New American Film and Video Series, 63. Whitney Museum of American Art. March, 1992.
Sun Sentinel, 2001, article on the use of verse in advertising campaigns for cities
St. Petersburg Times, 2000, feature article on W. H. Auden and the media
“Graduate Student Mentoring.” Poetry, Politics & The Profession: A Tribute to Cary Nelson. University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), October 2006.
“Racing Modern Poetry: A Triptych,” English Department, University of Georgia, December 2005.
“Prepare to Be Transported: Displaced Artist Statements in Women’s Poetry Anthologies.” Workshop on Artist Statements and Artistic Inquiry. Thompson Rivers University, British Columbia, Canada, November 2005.
“Raising the Dead: Teaching Seamus Heaney and Photography.” Session sponsored by the MLA at the NCTE Convention (Orlando, FL), November 1994.
“Paul Strand and Documentary.” The Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, NY), March 1992.
"Everyday Ariel, Household Mythologies." Lifting Belly High: Women's Poetry since 1900. (Pittsburgh PA), September 2008.
“Epic Gender Makeovers: H.D.’s Helen in Egypt and Warner Brothers’ Helen of Troy,” plenary talk for “Femininities and Masculinities in a Global Context,” Florida Consortium for Women’s and Gender Studies (Tampa FL), February 2008.
Seminar Co-Leader, “Modernisms in the 1950s,” and Panelist for Open Forum on Teaching Innovation, Modernist Studies Association (Long Beach CA), November 2007.
“Lyric Killers: Ai’s Monologues of Male Violence.” Black Cultural Interventions into Gender and Sexuality Conference, University of Florida, March 2007.
“H.D. in CinemaScope: Helen in Egypt, Historical Epic, Hollywood” and “Sounding Sitwell, Sounding Modernism.” Modernist Studies Association (Tulsa OK), October 2006.
“H.D.'s Egypto-Modernism and James Henry Breasted's New Past,” co-authored with Mary Ann Eaverly, and “The I's Have It? The Problem of Dramatic Monologue in Contemporary Women's Poetry.” Modernist Studies Association (Chicago, IL), November 2005.
“Reading Stevie Smith’s Image-Text ,” Society for Textual Scholarship conference (New York, NY), March 2005.
“Edith Sitwell as Modernist Icon: The Beaton Photographs.” Modernist Studies Association (Vancouver, Canada), October 2004.
“Classical Tourism in Debora Greger’s Poetry,” with Mary Ann Eaverly and Debora Greger. Center for Women’s Studies and Gender Research, U. of Florida, October 2004.
Respondent, “Modernism’s Traffic in Urban Women.” Cities of Women: The Filmic Portrayal of Urban Female Struggles. U. of Florida, December 2003.
Cross-Atlantic Roundtable Participant. “The Auden Generation, Reconfigured.” Modernist Studies Association (Birmingham, U.K.), Oct. 2003.
“Stevie Smith and the Children’s Culture Concept.” Modernist Studies Association (Birmingham, U.K.), Oct. 2003.
“Uneasy Alliances: Brooks, Ebony, and Postwar Race Relations.” Modernist Studies Association (Madison, WI ), Nov. 2002.
“Edith Sitwell: Emblem of Modernism.” Modernist Studies Association (Houston, TX), Oct. 2001
“Modernist mise en page: Stevie Smith and Children’s Literature.” Modernist Studies Association (Houston, TX), Oct. 2001
“Plath, Advertising, and the Domestic Surreal.” Marxist Reading Group Conference (Gainesville, FL), March 2001.
“Edith Sitwell’s Facades of Empire: Performance, Race, Nation.” Modernist Studies Association (Philadelphia, PA), Oct. 2000.
“Persephone in Florida: Greek Myth in Debora Greger’s Poems” (with Mary Ann Eaverly). 20th Anniversary Symposium of the Center for Greek Studies at the University of Florida. (Gainesville, FL), February 2000.
“Teaching Myth through Modern Poetry” (With Mary Ann Eaverly, Helen Sword, and Cynthia Bannon). American Women and Classical Myths (College Park, MD), Sept. 1999.
“Excavating H.D.’s Egypt in Palimpsest and The Walls Do Not Fall” (with Mary Ann Eaverly). American Literature Association (San Diego, CA), May 1998.
“Afro-Centric Archaeology in H.D.’s The Walls Do Not Fall” (with Mary Ann Eaverly). Southeast Women’s Studies Association (Gainesville, FL), March 1998.
“Alternative Masculinities in 1930s Industrial Britain.” Modern Language Association (Washington, D.C.), December 1996.
“Interpretive Fictions: Reading Photographs and Literature.” Modern Language Association (San Diego, CA), December 1994.
“‘Splendid Men’ of the Black Country: Documentary, Masculinity, and Industrial Britain in the 1930s.” 19th Conference on Literature and Film. Florida State University, January 1994.
“Casting Shadows: Auden, Photography, and Documentary.” Cultural Studies in the 1990s Conference, University of Oklahoma, October 1990.
“Notes Toward a Supreme War Poem: Auden's Spain and Cultural Memory.” Modern Language Association (Washington, D.C.), December 1989.
“‘Selected Images’ and ‘Gardened Words.’” Midwest Modern Language Association (Minneapolis, MN), November 1989.
“Fantasy as Counter-Narrative: The Subversive Text of Joyce's Dubliners.” James Joyce Conference (Philadelphia, PA), June 1989.
“A War of One's Own: Auden's Photographic Vision in Journey to a War.” Modern Language Association (New Orleans, LA), December 1988.
“Auden’s Reluctant ‘I’ in the Early Love Poems.” Midwest Modern Language Association (Columbus, OH), November 1987.
“‘I walk among them taking photographs’: Auden's Documentary Vision in Letters from Iceland.” 12th Annual Colloquium on Literature and Film. West Virginia University, October 1987.
“Plath and the Discourse of Postwar Domesticity,” UF English Majors club, February 2007.
Literary Connections: Marsden Hartley, American Modern. Harn Museum of Art, November 2006.
“Celebrate National Poetry Month,” Talbot Elementary School, April 2004.
“Celebrate National Poetry Month,” Flowers Montessori School, April 2003.
“What is Poetry?” Holy Trinity Child Caring Center. March 2000 & 2001.
“Sylvia Plath and the 1950s Kitchen,” Jewish Newcomers Club, April 2000.
Specialist reader for the scholarly journals PMLA, Mosaic, Twentieth Century Literature, and College Literature.
Specialist reader for Ashgate Press, University of Minnesota Press, and the University Press of Florida.
James McDougall, “The Incorporation of Chinese Literature into Modern American Poetry,” 2007. Currently on the faculty of the American University of Kuwait.
Jill Pruett, “Autobiography and the Business of Being Modern: Gertrude Stein, Josephine Baker, Sylvia Beach, and Elsa Schiaparelli in Paris,” 2007. Currently Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Alabama, Birmingham.
Kirsten Bartholomew Ortega, “The Poet Flâneuse in the American City: Gwendolyn Brooks, Adrienne Rich, Diane DiPrima, Audre Lorde,” 2006. Currently on the faculty of the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (tenure-track).
Glenn Freeman, “Lyric Voice and American Individualism,” 2005. Currently on the faculty of Cornell College, Iowa (tenure-track).
John Smith, “Men of the Cold War: Warrior Ethos and Domesticity in 1950s America,” 2002. Currently on the faculty of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point (tenure-track).
Steve Spence, “Photographic Culture and the American Thirties,” 1999. Currently on the faculty of Clayton College and State University in Georgia (tenure-track).
CLAS Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Fund Selection Committee, 2008.
Department Tenure & Promotion Committee (elected): 2005-2007.
Department Graduate Studies Committee (Admissions): 1998-2000, 2003-2006.
CLAS Research Advisory Committee, 2003.
CLAS Assembly Steering Committee, 2003–2004.
Department Council (elected), 2003-2005, 2000-2001.
Chair, Department Speakers Committee, 2000-2002.
Department Appointments Committee, 2004, 1999, 1997.
Phi Beta Kappa Selection Committee, 2000-2002.
University Committee on Teacher Education, 1999-2002.
Department General Education Committee, 1994-97.
Department Chair Search Committee for English (elected), 1994.
University Teaching Improvement Program (TIP) Advisory Committee, 1994.
University Teaching Improvement Design Committee, 1992.
CLAS Teaching Awards Selection Committee, 1992.
Department Merit Pay Committee (elected), 1990-91, 1991-92, 1993-94.
Modernist Studies Association
Modern Language Association
W. H. Auden Society