Courses & Teaching Experience
Courses:
I regularly teach undergraduate majors and core literature courses in women’s literature as well as graduate courses devoted to the study of women authors. I’ve also taught courses devoted to the study of individual authors—Major Figures: Margaret Atwood; Advanced Seminar on Toni Morrison (for undergraduates); Graduate Seminar on Toni Morrison—as well as various core and majors courses on Shame in Literature.
Teaching Experience:
Loyola University of Chicago
Professor, beginning 2000
Associate Professor, 1991-2000
Courses taught at Loyola University and Mundelein Women’s College: Composition, Advanced Composition, Introduction to Poetry, Introduction to Fiction, Introduction to Literary Interpretation, Survey of British Literature (Old English through Sixteenth Century and Romantics through Modern period) (Mundelein College), Victorian Literature (Mundelein College), Modern British Poetry (Mundelein College), The Modern Novel, Studies in Twentieth-Century English Literature, Undergraduate Seminar on Virginia Woolf (Mundelein College), The Narcissistic Character in Literature (Mundelein College), The Female Character in Literature, Women in Literature, Society and Literature—The Shame Experience, Undergraduate Seminar on Shame in Literature, Major Figures: Margaret Atwood (Mundelein College), Studies in Fiction: Toni Morrison, Undergraduate Seminar on Toni Morrison; Reading Women Writers: Feminist Theory and Practice, Graduate Seminar: Feminist Theory and Practice, Graduate Seminar: The Modern Novel; Graduate Seminar: Toni Morrison; Directed Readings on German and Anglo-American Feminist Theory; Directed Readings on Toni Morrison; Directed Readings on Feminist Ethics and Literature
Fields:
Modern British Literature and Twentieth-Century Women’s Literature
Areas of Special Interest:
Psychoanalysis and Literature, Emotions and Literature, Shame in Literature, Trauma and Narrative, Feminist Theory, History of Feminist Criticism