Assistant Director, The Teaching Center (2006-present)
Lecturer, Women and Gender Studies (2001-present)

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Education
Ph.D., English and American Literature, University of Iowa (2001)
M.A., English and American Literature, University of Iowa (1997)
A.B., English, summa cum laude, Washington University (1992)

Administrative Experience
Assistant Director, The Teaching Center, Washington University (2006-present)
Annual Fund Manager, YWCA of St. Louis (2004-2005)
Editor and Project Manager, Freshman Reading Program, Washington University (2003-2004)
Co-Advisor, V-Day, Washington University (2003-2004)
Faculty Search Committee, Dept. of English & Communication, Fontbonne University (1999-2000)
Graduate Steering Committee, Department of English, University of Iowa (1995-1996)
Co-Organizer, Graduate Student-Faculty Forum, Dept. of English, University of Iowa (1995-1996)

Teaching Appointments
Lecturer, Women and Gender Studies Program, Washington University (2001-present)

• Women and Social Class (co-taught with Linda Nicholson)
• Introduction to Women’s Studies
• Introduction to Women’s Texts

Lecturer, Dept. of English, University of Missouri-St. Louis (2001-2002)

• Gender and Nation in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction
• American Literature II
• Advanced Expository Writing

Lecturer, Dept. of English and Communication, Fontbonne University (1997-2000)

• Rhetoric I
• Rhetoric II
• Introduction to Literature

Instructor, Dept. of English General Education in Literature Program, Univ. of Iowa (1994-1996)

• Interpretation of Literature
• Women and Literature: Selected Narratives by American Women
• Narrative Literature: American Fiction and Autobiography

Awards
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Dissertation Grant in Women’s Studies (2000)
Seashore Dissertation-Year Fellowship, University of Iowa Graduate College (2000-2001)
Iowa Fellowship, University of Iowa Graduate College (1993-1997)
Phi Beta Kappa (1992)

Research and Teaching Interests
Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature and Culture
Gender and Consumer Culture
Gender and Class
Expository Writing

Publications

Rev. of Americans on Fiction, 1776-1900. 3 vols. Edited by Peter Rawlings. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2002. Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association. 38.1 (2006): 121-126.

“Precarious Performances: Ruiz de Burton’s Theatrical Vision of the Gilded Age Female Consumer.” María Amparo Ruiz de Burton: Critical and Pedagogical Perspectives. Edited by Amelia M. de la Luz Montes and Anne E. Goldman. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. 187-205.

Rev. of Consumerism and American Girls’ Literature, 1860-1940. By Peter Stoneley. Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association 37.2 (2004): 91-93.

“The Captive Mexicana and the Desiring Bourgeois Woman: Domesticity and Expansionism in Ruiz de Burton’s Who Would Have Thought It?” Discourses of Women and Class. Special issue of Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 16.1 (1999): 59-69.

Presentations

“Managing Female Desire ‘Behind the Scenes’: Elizabeth Keckley’s ‘Secret History of Mrs. Lincoln’s Wardrobe in New York.’” Midwest Modern Language Association Convention. St. Louis, Missouri, Nov. 2004.

“María Amparo Ruiz de Burton: Critical and Pedagogical Perspectives.” Modern Language Association Convention. San Diego, California. Dec.2003.

“María Amparo Ruiz de Burton: Critical and Pedagogical Perspectives, A Roundtable.” Society for the Study of American Women Writers Second International Conference. Fort Worth, Texas. Sept. 2003.

“Female Extravagance and the ‘Internal Economy’ of Men in Henry James’s The American.” Midwest Modern Language Association Convention. Minneapolis, Minnesota. Nov. 2002.

“Godey’s Lady’s Book and the Gilded Age Consumer: The Domestic Woman Enters the Marketplace.” American Literature Association Conference. Cambridge, Massachusetts. May 2001.

Session Chair and Respondent. “Novel Performances: American Theatre and Fiction, 1850-1900.” Northeast Modern Language Association Convention. Hartford, Connecticut. Mar. 2001.

“New Year’s Day: Edith Wharton’s ‘Backward Glance’ at Marriage, Money, and Women’s Sexuality in the Gilded Age.” Edith Wharton Society Conference. Newport, Rhode Island. June 2000.

“The Lady is a Tramp: Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Response to Victoria Woodhull.” American Literature Association Conference. Long Beach, California. May 2000.

“Witnessing Domesticity, Witnessing Class: María Amparo Ruiz de Burton’s Who Would Have Thought It?” Midwest Modern Language Association Convention. Minneapolis, Minnesota. Nov. 1999.

“Adultery and Consumption: Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Reformation of the Female Appetite in Pink and White Tyranny.” Midwest Modern Language Association Convention. St. Louis, Missouri. Nov. 1998.

Professional Memberships
Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education
Modern Language Association
Midwest Modern Language Association