Office: Harrison 1102

Fall 2024 Office Hours:
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Specialization:
Modern British and Irish Literature, Modernism, Irish Studies, Narrative Theory, Gender Studies

EDUCATION
Ph.D., English, University of Notre Dame (2009)
M.A., English, Loyola Marymount University (2002)
B.A., cum laude and Honors, English, minor in Spanish, UCLA (1998)

PUBLICATIONS

Book
The Edinburgh Companion to Irish Modernism, co-editor with Maud Ellmann and Vicki Mahaffey (Edinburgh UP, May 2021).

Articles & Book Chapters

 “A ‘Hair-Trigger Society’ and the Woman Who Felt Something in Anna Burns’s Big, Ambitious Milkman (2018),” Special Issue: “Big, Ambitious Novels by 21^st Century Women,” Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture 54.1 (2021): 111-137.

“‘Stories Are A Different Kind of True’: Gender and Narrative Agency in Contemporary Irish Women’s Fiction,” The Edinburgh Companion to Irish Modernism, 351-367.

“The Dramatic Modern Novel: Mimesis and The Poetics of Tragedy in Mrs. Dalloway.” Woolf Studies Annual 24 (2018): 101-34.

“Spatial Politics/Poetics, Late Modernism and Elizabeth Bowen’s The Last September.” Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture 49.1 (2016): 27-50.

“Ulysses, the Poetics of Tragedy, and A New Mimesis.” PLL: Papers on Language and Literature 51.4 (2015): 334-72.

“An Aesthetics of Unintimacy: Narrative Complexity in Elizabeth Bowen’s Style.” JNT: Journal of Narrative Theory 45.1 (Winter 2015), 79-104.

“‘O, despise not my youth!’: Senses, Sympathy, and an Intimate Aesthetics in Ulysses.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 51.4 (Winter 2009): 503-536.

 “Warming the Other Side: Trevor, Cixous, and Facing a New Direction.” New Voices 5. Ed. Ruth Connolly (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2005). 224-231.

Tribute: “Seamus Deane,” James Joyce Literary Supplement, 37.1, Article 21 (2024): 1-4.

Edited Journal Issues
Co-editor and author of “Introduction” with Dr. Pamela Thurschwell, Special Issue, “Elizabeth Bowen and Textual Modernity,” Textual Practice 27.1 (January 2013): 1-192.

Non-Refereed Digital Publication
Networked Woolf (formerly Woolf in Time and Space), Digital Humanities website (designer, editor and producer with students in Eng 410 seminar), Spring 2015-Present