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Associate Professor of English

 

Education:
Ph.D. Cornell University, 1995
M.A. Cornell University, 1989
M.A. University of Colorado, 1982
B.A. University of Colorado, 1976

Courses Frequently Taught:
Gateway: Understanding Comix

English 123: Bad Girls
English 129: Third World Women Speak
English 170: Literature of the Iraq War
English 206: Creative Nonfiction
English 220: Thinking Like a Mountain: Literature and Environmental Consciousness
English 346: Victorian Literature
English 365: Autobiography
English 370: The Empire Writes Back

Selected Honors and Awards:
Finalist, Bakeless Literary Prize, for memoir Lost River, 2010
CIC-CAORC-Dept. of State, Seminar Program, in Jordan, "Teaching about Islam and Middle Eastern Culture" Dec. 2006-Jan. 2007.
Rockefeller Foundation Grant, Course Development in Environmental Studies, 2000, 2002
U.S. Dept. of Education Grant, Course Development in International Studies, 1992, 1993
Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, 2000
1998 Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ Artistic and Scholarly Development Grant, travel to South Africa.
1996 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College Teachers, Literature and Culture in Contemporary South Africa, 1948-1994, in South Africa.
Junior Faculty Leave, Ä¢¹½´«Ã½, 1995

Selected Publications and Presentations:
— "'Not Yet, Not There': Breaking the Bonds of Marriage in E.M. Forster's A Passage to India." Critical Survey, Volume 21, No. 1, 2009, 59-73.  Invited Contributor.
— "Married to the Empire: the Anglo-Indian Domestic Novel" in Writing India 1757-1990, edited by B.J. Moore-Gilbert, Manchester University Press, 1996, 163-187. Reprinted in Forster's A Passage to India: An Anthology of Recent Criticism, ed. G.K. Das and C.R. Devadaswson, Pencraft international (Delhi), 2005
— "The Marriage of India and England: Gender and Imperialism in the Work of Maud Diver" Property, Commodity, Culture: Cultural Studies Symposium, March 1997. 
— "The Problem of Madness in A Question of Power" Bessie Head Conference, National University of Singapore, October 1996. 

Faculty Status:
Tenured, on the faculty at Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ since 1991; next sabbatical, 2019-20
Chair, English Department, 2004-2008
Director, Women's Studies Program, 1996-2003

Professional and Personal:
I am a Westerner, born in Alaska, raised in California and Colorado.  My most recent work is a book-length family memoir, Lost River, a meditation on loss and the consolation of place.