Degrees

B.A., The University of St. Thomas

M.A., The Catholic University of America

Ph.D., The Catholic University of America

Specializations

• British Literature
• 18th and 19th Century Irish Literature
• Textual Criticism
• Canadian Literature
• 18th Century British Book Trade

Interests

Authors: Ford Madox Ford

Rohinton Mistry

University/Program Connections

• Academic Policies Committee
• NCTE/NCATE Coordinating Council
• Institutional Assessment Committee
• Scholar-in-Residence Program Coordinator, English Dept.

Community and Club Connections

• Friends of Ganser Library
• North Museum
• National Trust for Historic Preservation
• National Poetry Month Speaker Series

Passions & Distractions

Lighthouses and Cape Cod

Graduate education and advisement

New fiction and poetry

Forgotten or overlooked authors

Celtic and American folk music

Courses Taught

• English 110: English Composition
• English 233: Early English Literature
• English 230: Introduction to Literature
• English 237: Introduction to Literary Analysis
• English 312: Technical Writing
• English 316: Business Writing
• English 331: Special Topics in Irish Literature
• English 337: Medieval Women Writers
• English 403/603: Chaucer
• English 408/608: Restoration, 18th Century Literature
• English 413/613: British Literature since 1914
• English 418: Literature of Scotland and Ireland
• English 441/641, 443/643: Novel, Poetry, and Prose Fiction
• Topics courses in East Asian, Irish and Arabic Literature

Sample Publication

Anna Parnell's Political Journalism: Contexts and Texts. Dublin: Maunsel, 2005.

"Mary Cooper: Eighteenth-Century London Bookseller, 1743-1761" (dissertation)

Writing about Business and Industry, Oxford UP, 1995.

"No 'Brave Irishman' Need Apply: Sheridan, Shakespeare, and the Smock-Alley Theatre" in Shakespeare in Ireland, ed. Mark Thornton Burnett and Ramona Wray, London: MacMillan, 1997.

"Visitable and Visible: The Use of History in the East Asian Novel," JNT, 2002.