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Current Research

 

Current research includes work on the intersections of feminist and queer theory and the interrelationships among gender, sexuality, race, and nationalism in twentieth-century literature and culture.
Current projects include an analysis of relationships among female masculinity, lesbian identity and feminism; a study of the effects of World War I on representations of women's gender and sexual identities; an examination of the role of nationalism in inter-war fictions by women; a new project on war and culture in the United States in the twenty-first century.
Recent Publications
  • "Teaching Transnationally: Queer Studies and Imperialist Legacies in Monique Truong's The Book of Salt." Radical Teacher. Vol 82, 2008. 25-30.
  • "Sapphism and Sedition: Producing Female Homosexuality in Great War Britain." Journal of the History of Sexuality. Volume 16, issue 1, Autumn 2007.
  • "Keeping the Home Front Burning: Renegotiating Gender and Sexuality in U.S. Mass Media After September 11" Feminist Media Studies. Vol 6 no 3, September 2006. 245-261.
  • Review of Manipulating Masculinity: War and Gender in Modern British and American Literature by Kathy J. Phillips. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society . Volume 33, issue 1, Autumn 2007.
  • Review of Desiring Revolution: Second-Wave Feminism and the Rewriting of American Sexual Thought 1920-1982 by Jane Gerhard. Journal of the History of Sexuality volume 12, issue 1 (2003).
  • "Mapping Race and Medicine." Review of Frontiers of Medicine in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by Heather Bell and Race, Science, and Medicine, 1700-1960 eds. Waltraud Ernst and Bernard Harris. Journal of Medical Humanities Vol. 23, nos 3/4 (Winter 2002).
  • Citizen, Invert, Queer: Lesbianism and War in Early Twentieth Century Britain (book in press, University of Minnesota Press, 2009).
Education
Ph.D. in English Literature
Brown University, Providence, RI
A.M. in English Literature
Brown University, Providence, RI

B.A. in English and Women's Studies
Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT

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