Professional Bio

Ph.D., New York University, English and American Literature - 2005

M.A., New York University, English and American Literature - 1998

B.A., Kutztown University, English Literature (Honors Program; summa cum laude) - 1995

B.S., Kutztown University, Psychology (Honors Program; summa cum laude) - 1995

Research & Scholarship

Publications

“The Sound of Silence: The Limits of the Word in David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas.” (LIT. Under consideration.)

“Crushing Sylvia: Retroping the Kristevan Chora in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway.” (Criticism. Under consideration.)

“’I was the subject of the sentence written on the mirror.’ Angela Carter’s Short Fiction and the Unwriting of the Psychoanalytic Subject.” Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory 21.1 (2010): 1-19.

“Angela Carter’s Narrative Chiasmus: The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman and The Passion of New Eve.” Genre (Spring/Summer 2009). 83-111.

“Portraits in Absentia: Repetition Compulsion and the Postmodern Uncanny.” Studies in the Novel. (Winter 2008). 447-464.

“Public Personae and the Private I: De-Compositional Ontology in Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy.” MFS: Modern Fiction Studies. 52:3 (Fall 2006): 613-633.

“Cartesian Nuts: Rewriting the Platonic Androgyne in Angela Carter’s Japanese Surrealism.” FEMSPEC: An Interdisciplinary Feminist Journal. 6:2 (December 2005): 15-31.

“‘Pour les jeunes en France, Faulkner c’est un dieu’.” EAPSU Proceedings: Facing Change. (October 1995): 47-56.

“Worlds Apart.” Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies. (Spring 1994): 37-57.

Awards & Recognition

Fellowships, Honors & Awards

Award of Distinction in Dissertation, New York University, 2005

Award of Distinction in Defense, New York University, 2005

Award of Excellence in Teaching, Expository Writing Program, New York University, Spring 2004; Fall 2004; Spring 2005; Fall 2005

Golden Dozen Outstanding Teaching Award (University-wide), New York University, 2005-2006 (nominated)

Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award (University-wide), New York University, 1999-2000 (nominated); 2000-1 (awarded)

Lind Dissertation Fellowship, New York University, 2003

Henry M. MacCracken Fellowship, New York University, 1996-2001
Full tuition with stipend and teaching component

Geiss Award for English Scholarship, Kutztown University, 1996

Oxford University Summer Program, Pennsylvania SSHE Summer Honors Scholarship, 1994

Outstanding English Major Award, Kutztown University, 1994 and 1995

Gallo Award for Best Creative Writer, Kutztown University, 1994 and 1995

Bennett-Harris Humorous Writing Award, Kutztown University, 1994 and 1995

Honors Program Scholarship, Kutztown University, 1992-5