Faculty member, Women's and Gender Studies.
Education: B.A., Anna Maria College ; Ph.D., Brown.

Research interests: feminist, psychoanalytic, and critical theory, theory and criticism of novel, 19th- and 20th-century British and American novel.

Book: In the Name of Love: Women, Masochism, and the Gothic (1992).

Essays: Feminist and/or psychoanalytic essays on Wuthering Heights , Little Women , gothic fiction, advertising, and the bourgeois novel in journals/books such as Signs and Psychoanalyses/Feminisms .

Professional Service: Series editor, Feminist Theory and Criticism (SUNY Press); associate editor, NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction , 1977-81; Chair, MLA Delegate Assembly Organizing Committee, 2006-07 (member, 2004-06); Executive Committee, MLA Prose Fiction Division, 2004-09; MLA Delegate Assembly, 2001-04; Acting Chair, MLA Nominating Committee, 2003- 04 (member, 2002-03); Co-chair, MLA Committee on the Status of Women, 2003-04 (member, 2001-03); Director of a day-long workshop for Directors of Graduate Study, ADE Summer Seminar, 2003; Chair, MLA Division on Psychological Approaches to Literature, 2001-02 (Executive Committee, 1998-2001).

Awards and honors: ATLAS grant, 2007-2008, Fellow, Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis. New Brunswick, 2004-05; H. M. "Hub" Cotton Award for Faculty Excellence, 2004; National Humanities Center, 1999-2000; LSU Alumni Outstanding Faculty Award, 1997; Women's and Gender Studies Outstanding Faculty Award, 1997; Louisiana Enhancement Grant for Women's and Gender Studies, 1991 and 1994; Monticello College Foundation Fellowship, Newberry Library, 1989; NEH Fellowship, 1983-84.

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