Campus Directory

Division Humanities Division

Department/College/Unit Literature Department

Title Professor, Literature
Provost, College Nine and John R. Lewis College

Affiliation Faculty

Faculty Type Regular Faculty

Areas of Expertise Feminist Theory
Race
Popular Culture

Web Site

Primary Office Location Social Sciences 1
214

Office Hours for Students/ Office Hours by appointment

Mail Stop Humanities Academic Services

Research Interests

Fairy-Tale Studies; Feminist Theory and Gender Studies; Critical Race Theory; Monster Studies; Popular Culture

Selected Publications

• "Fantasies of Femininity Redressed: Angela Carter's Authorial Self-Fashioning." In Fashion and Authorship, ed. Gerald Egan (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020): 297-320.
• "The Vampire, the Queer, and the Girl: Reflections on the Politics and Ethics of Immortality's Gendering." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 44.1 (2018): 3-24.
• "Masculinity and Melancholia at the Virtual End: Leaving the World (of Warcraft)." differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 28.3 (2017): 44-66.
• "Imperial Marvels: Race and the Colonial Imagination in the Fairy Tales of Madame D'Aulnoy." Narrative Culture 3.2 (2017): 141-179.
• "Snow White and the Trickster: Race and Genre in Helen Oyeyemi's Boy, Snow, Bird." Western Folklore 75.3-4 (2016): 371-396.
• Erotic Infidelities: Love and Enchantment in Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber. (Wayne State UP, 2014)
• Body Language: Sisters in Shape, Black Women's Fitness, and Feminist Identity Politics. (Temple UP, 2011)
• New Age Capitalism: Making Money East of Eden. (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000)
• "The Political Lives of Avatars: Play and Democracy in Virtual Worlds." Western Folklore 69.3-4 (2010): 99-124.
• "Girl: Stories on the Way to Feminism." In A Narrative Compass, ed. Betsy Hearne and Roberta Trites (University of Illinois Press, 2009). 19-30.
• "This Text Which is Not One: Dialectics of Self and Culture in Exploratory Auto-Ethnography." Journal of Folklore Research, May/December 2002.
• "Serial Logic: Folklore and Difference in the Age of Feel-Good Multiculturalism." Journal of American Folklore 113 (2000): 70-82.