About

I am Associate Professor of English at Suffolk University in Boston, Massachusetts, where I teach courses on Female Gothic, horror fiction, psychoanalysis and literature, graphic novels, and creative writing. I am the author of the monograph Shell Shock and the Modernist Imagination: The Death Drive in Post-World War I British Fiction (2013) and essays in Modern Fiction StudiesGothic Studies, and Marvels & Tales. My current research focuses on women writers who draw on the Gothic and fairy-tale traditions, such as Leonora Carrington, Angela Carter, Barbara Comyns, Shirley Jackson, and Helen Oyeyemi. I am also a fiction writer with short story publications online and in print in journals such as Atticus ReviewDenver Quarterly, Fairy Tale ReviewNecessary FictionNew World WritingSmokeLong QuarterlyWigleaf, and others.

Education

Ph.D., English, Cornell University

M.A., English, Cornell University

B.A., English, University of California, Berkeley

Blog Posts

    Publications

    Book:

    Shell Shock and the Modernist Imagination: The Death Drive in Post-World War I British Fiction. Farnham, Surrey, England: Ashgate, 2013.


     

    Essays in Peer-Reviewed Journals:

    “ ‘The Juniper Tree’ as Primal Scene: English-Language Literary Adaptations Since 1985.” Marvels & Tales. (Forthcoming 2019)


    “ ‘Only One Antagonist’: The Demon Lover and the Feminine Experience in the Work of Shirley Jackson.” Gothic Studies 15.2 (2013): 66-88.


    “The Return of the Soldier Brings Death Home.” Modern Fiction Studies 51 (2005): 513-535.


    “Writing the Face of the Other: Image, Text, and Ethics in Lacan, Levinas, and Rilke.” (a): a journal of culture and the unconscious 4.2 (2004): 41-57.


     

    Essay in Edited Collection:


    “Shell Shock as a Narrative Paradigm in Great War Psychiatry and Fiction.” Options for Teaching Representations of World War One. Eds. Debra Rae Cohen and Douglas Higbee. New York: Modern Language Association, 2017.


    Book Reviews:


    Review of Ford Madox Ford and the Misfit Moderns: Edwardian Fiction and the First World War by Rob Hawkes. Modernism/modernity 20.3 (2013): 614-15.


    Review of Clandestine Encounters: Philosophy in the Narratives of Maurice Blanchot, ed. Kevin Hart. Modern Philology 111.2 (2013): E278-E281.


     


    Selected Fiction Publications:


    “Nightmare Bird.” Coffin Bell 2.2 (2019). Web.


    “Black Plastic” and “House Sparrow.” Wigleaf. March 9, 2019. Web.


    “Strawberry Festival.” Occulum. Issue 2. Dec 1, 2017. Web.


    “Teenage Boy in Polaroids.” New World Writing. April 2, 2017. Web.


    “Science Project.” Atticus Review. August 15, 2016. Web.


    “After the Storm, the Cement Ship.” Necessary Fiction May 11, 2016. Web.

    “Dead End.” Yemassee 22.2 (2015): 112-14. Print.

    “The Wood Thrush.” Devil’s Lake. Spring 2015. Web.

    “Wind-Up Toy.” Fairy Tale Review: The Mauve Issue (2015): 23-25. Print.

    “House of Stars,” “The New Kids,” and “Old Voices.” NANO Fiction 8.2 (2015): 12-14. Print.

    “The Old Church” and “Sister Finds a Box.” Wigleaf. November 27, 2012. Web.

    “None of Your Business.” HOBART. October 16, 2012. Web.

    “Little Man.” Fairy Tale Review: The Grey Issue (2012): 31-32. Print.


    “Bible Camp.” SmokeLong Quarterly, Issue 32, June 2011. Web.


    “There Was a Time When We Had Nothing,” “The Devil Called Satan Had Me for a Snack,” and “If We Could Have Known.” Action, Yes, Fall 2009. Web.


    “The Teacher.” Word Riot, July 2009. Web.


    “Late Summer 1979.” LIT 14 (2008): 138. Print.


    “Anniversary Vacation.” Snow Monkey 18 (2007): 143-44. Print.

    “The Day Faded.” First Intensity 21 (2006): 119-20. Print.

    “Johnnie and Janie Cross Country.” Denver Quarterly 39.4 (2005): 15-16. Print.

    “Wait to Come Unstuck.” elimae, April 2005. Web.

    “The Missing Child.” The Café Irreal (www.cafeirreal.com), Issue 6, August 2001. Web.

    “Family Life.” Exquisite Corpse (www.corpse.org), Issue 4, April/May 2000. Web.

    Memberships

    International Gothic Association

    Modern Language Association

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