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Education
- B.A., Scripps College
- M.A., Stanford University
- Ph.D., Stanford University
About
Faculty Research
- Twentieth-century U.S. literature and culture
- Southern fiction
- Literary representations of race and social class
- Modernism and modernity
Selected Publications
Books
Book Chapters
Journal Articles
- “Untranslatable Creole: Language Suppression, Racial Segregation, and Louisiana Local Color Fiction.” American Quarterly 73, no. 3 (September 2021): 619-638.
- “Transnational American Studies’ Female Trouble.” Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 47, no. 1 (January/February 2018): 1-20.
- “Writing Against Normativity: Samuel R. Delany’s Textual Times Square.” African American Review 48, no. 3 (Fall 2015): 345-358.
- “Documenting Hunger: Famineways in Contemporary Southern Women’s Writing.” Southern Literary Journal 47, no. 2 (Spring 2015): 1-19.
- “Finding Life in the Meshes: Patsy Yaeger’s Legacies.” Mississippi Quarterly 67, no. 1 (Winter 2014): 11-13.
- “‘She Wants It Told’: Rosa Coldfield’s Narrative Clout in Absalom, Absalom!” LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory 25, no. 3 (Summer 2014): 242-258.
- “Goophering Jim Crow: Charles Chesnutt’s 1890s America.” American Literary Realism 46, no. 1 (Fall 2013): 12-26.
- “The First Fruits of Literary Rebellion: Flannery O’Connor’s ‘The Crop.’” Journal of the Short Story in English 60 (Spring 2013): 73-81.
- “William Faulkner’s Rural Modernism.” Mississippi Quarterly 61, no. 3 (Summer 2008): 461-75.