Professor at University of Washington, Bothell. Her work has appeared in many publications such as Women and Language; Transformations: A Resource for Curriculum Transformation and Scholarship; Genre: An International Journal of Literature and Art; Post Script: Essays in Film and the Humanities. She has also contributed to many edited collections such as, The World Is Our Home: Society and Culture in Contemporary Southern Writing; Memorial Boxes and Guarded Interiors: Edith Wharton and Material Culture; Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century.