I’m a literary critic, essayist, and public scholar interested in how storytelling can be an important tool in the work of personal growth, building communities, and reimagining what’s possible.

My essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in a variety of publications, including Boston Review, CNN.com, Inside Higher Ed, LIBER: A Feminist Review, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Women’s Review of Books. I coedited an essay collection, #MeToo and Literary Studies: Reading, Writing, and Teaching about Sexual Violence and Rape Culture, and have authored or co-authored over 20 scholarly articles in the fields of literary and gender studies. My creative nonfiction has been published in several literary journals and two anthologies, The Good Mother Myth and A Slant of Light: Contemporary Women Writers of the Hudson Valley.

I also write about higher education and teaching. My thinking is influenced by the years I’ve spent teaching as well as my experience advancing the humanities and working on academic change initiatives at the American Council of Learned Societies. For more about my teaching, leadership, and work in higher education, please visit my LinkedIn profile.

I’m an associate professor of gender studies at SUNY New Paltz, a regional public university, where I teach classes in gender and literary studies as well as creative nonfiction. I make the lower Hudson Valley in New York my home.

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