About

My doctoral research focused on global modernism, narrative form, and feminist aesthetics. Drawing on postcolonial studies and twentieth century representations of conflict, I define a Baroque Modernism at work in experimental narratives during the interwar period in Anglophone Atlantic novels by women.

From this research emerged a focus on the construction and circulation of “white womanhood” as both a nationalist and transnational narrative trope in culture and popular rhetoric in the twentieth century. This has intersected with a new teaching and research interest: representations of crime in narrative forms, including fiction, nonfiction, and visual media, especially as these narratives reflect and shape our understandings of identity and cultural capital.

At Elmira College, I teach first-year writing and literature, with topics of my courses ranging from “Aliens Among Us?” to “Education, Metamorphosis and 20th Century British Women Writers.” I am also developing new courses for the new Media Studies, Communications, and Design major, including “Crime, Media, and Culture.”

I am particularly passionate about writing studies and composition pedagogy related to first-year writing curricula and the first-year college experience.