Degrees

Ph.D., M.A., Indiana University
B.A., La Salle College (now University)

Main Interests

Higher education policy, faculty development

Research Interests

Victorian studies, imperialism, colonialism, postcolonialism, cultural studies

Teaching Interests

Victorian literature and culture, postcolonial studies, literary and cultural theory, journalism

Other Interests

Director, Summer Institute for Literary and Cultural Studies, a Mellon-Foundation-funded four-week institute and mentoring program aimed at encouraging and preparing students from underrepresented groups to pursue PhDs in English

Publications

Books

Kim: A Longman Cultural Edition, by Rudyard Kipling. Co-edited with Tricia Lootens. New York: Longman, 2010.

Gender, Race, and the Writing of Empire: Public Discourse and the Boer War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Co-editor, The Feminist Teacher Anthology: Pedagogies and Classroom Strategies. New York: Teachers College Press, 1998.

Articles

"Not in Service," in Over Ten Million Served: Women and Academic Service in the Humanities, ed. Katie Hogan and Michelle Masse. New York: State U of New York Press, 2010.

"Wuthering Heights in the Culture of the English Department." In Approaches to Teaching Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights. Ed. Terri Hasseler and Sue Lonoff. New York: Modern Language Association, 2006.

"Narratives of Suffering and National Identity in Boer War South Africa," Nineteenth-Century Prose (Fall 2005).

"Losing Our Way After the Imperial Turn: Charting Academic Uses of the Postcolonial." In After the Imperial Turn: Critical Approaches to 'National' Histories and Literatures. Ed. Antoinette Burton. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2003.

"How Can a White Woman Love a Black Woman? Foreclosing Lesbian Desire in a Colonial Context." In White Women in Racialized Spaces. Ed. Samina Najmi and Rajini Srikanth. New York: SUNY Press, 2003. 193-205.

Selected recent journalism

"Back to the Private Realm," The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 27, 2011.

"Reverse-Transfer Programs Reward Students and Colleges Alike," with Donna Ekal, The Chronicle of Higher Education," June 19, 2011.

"Out in Public," The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 3, 2010.

"How I Got Played," The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 12, 2009.

"Ceding Control," The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 28, 2008, p. C3

"Little Muggle ISO Her Next Hogwarts," with Claire Buck, The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 21, 2008, p. B24.

"Colleges Focused on Teaching Too Often Neglect Research," The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 23, 2005, p. B14.

"One of Each: The Small College Multiplex English Department," Spring 2005, ADE Bulletin, Modern Language Association, New York.

"Infusing Race, Gender, and Class into the Curriculum at Wheaton College," On Campus with Women, AAC&U online newsletter, 34(1/2) Fall 2004/Winter 2005

"Coaching the Student in the Student-Athlete," The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 22, 2004, p. B5

"The Faculty-Staff Divide," The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 14, 2003, p. B5

"Why 'Family First' Is Not a Win for Academic Feminists," The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 21, 2001, p. B24.

"I Bowl, Therefore I Am," The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 22, 2001, p. B21

"The Bowling Camp Diaries" for slate.com

"Wheaton Does Diversity," Academe, September/October 2000.

InsideHigherEd columns:

“A New Humanities PhD,” insidehighered.com, May 24, 2010,

“The Public Service Obligation,” insidehighered.com, August 22, 2011

"The Lasting Impact of a Departmental Secretary," insidehighered.com, November 12, 2007;

"Lessons Learned," insidehighered.com, October 29, 2007;

InsideHigherEd series with Mary Krebs Flaherty:

"Motivations for Students and Instructors," insidehighered.com, June 26, 2006

"Counting Students," insidehighered.com, April 24, 2006

"What We Can Expect From Students," insidehighered.com, March 13, 2006

"Two Takes on Teaching," insidehighered.com, January 17, 2006

Student Projects

Supervised independent work in: Victorian women travelers in India; Chicana/o literature; Oscar Wilde; The Industrial Novel; The Poetry of Christina Rossetti and Emily Bronte; Rudyard Kipling and the Boer War; Tennyson; Travel Journalism; and many other topics