I have always wanted to buy the flowers myself and, consequently, my writing and teaching prioritizes feminist postures and practices that not only illuminate the work of modernist women writers, but also advocate for a more feminist and inclusive modernist studies. My recent writing adventures have compelled me to transgress period boundaries in search of social justice affiliations reverberating across time and text. In my spare time, I confront rape culture, empower young people, and participate in kick-ass feminist collaborations.
Oh, and I love to dance!
At Bucknell
As a member of the Women’s and Gender Studies Department, I teach some very cool classes. Modernism on the Margins and Women Writing are two classes that showcase my literary studies training as I guide students through close reading exercises and introduce them to theoretical and historical contexts for reading. History of Sexuality is a more interdisciplinary course that integrates literature, history, philosophy, and early social sciences to examine the construction of the sexed and sexualized body in the western world. In all three of the aforementioned classes, I prioritize an intersectional approach so that the study gender, sex, and sexuality is complicated and enriched by attention to race, class, and ability. Through the Women’s and Gender Studies Department, I also teach a first-year Foundation Seminar entitled From Fairy Tales to Playboy Bunnies, the senior seminar for our majors, and, our most popular course, Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies. (For a full list of classes taught, please see my CV.)
Feminist Modernist Studies
As a feminist modernist scholar, my work attends to gender and sexuality, exploring the gendered politics of authorship, gendered lifewriting, and feminist affiliations. Moreover, as a feminist modernist scholar, my professional posture is one of advocacy, activism, and agitation. Like many who have gone before me, I want to write as a feminist and live as a feminist. Consequently, in addition to traditional research practices, I have prioritized feminist collaborations. Centering feminist scholarly communities has reinvigorated my reading and writing, recalibrated my professional politics, and refined my career commitments. I now see every journal article, every conference presentation, and every book review as an opportunity to advocate for an intersectional feminist posture within my field particularly and with academia generally.
I am active in the International Virginia Woolf Society (IVWS) and the Feminist inter/Modernist Studies Association (FiMA). I regularly attend the Modernist Studies Association (MSA) conference. Additionally, I engage with the Space Between Society (SB) and the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA).