TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
• Classicism / The Classical Tradition and American Women Writers
• Feminist Theory
• Southern Women Writers (A. J. Evans, E. Gilchrist, E. Welty)
• Gender Theory
• Cross-Dressing and Gender-Performativity in Literature
• Sylvia Plath
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND AFFILIATIONS
• Co-Editor, Rougarou: An Online Literary Journal, University of Louisiana, Lafayette.
• Member, Society for the Study of American Women Writers
• Member, South Central Modern Language Association (SCMLA)
SELECTED WORKS
Articles
• "Role-Playing the 'Feminine' in Letters Home." Intertexts 12.2 (2008): 129-44.
• "The Pine Island Apparition: Cajun Values Revisited." Louisiana Folklore Miscellany 18 (2008): 52-73.
• "Individual and Communal Identity after Hurricane Rita: A Collaborative Essay." Louisiana Folklore Miscellany 16/17 (2007): 3-27.
Contribution Pieces
• "The Mentor." Points of Gold: Poems for Leo Luke Marcello. Xavier Press, 2005.
Reviews
• Review: "Erin Elizabeth Smith, The Fear fo Being Found." Rougarou: An Online Literary Journal (Fall 2009).
• Review: "Jill Scott, Electra After Freud: Myth and Culture." College Literature (October 2007).
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