EDUCATION:
BA: University of California, Santa Cruz, 1983; PhD: Yale, 1995.

COURSES TAUGHT:
Expository Writing, Introduction to American Literature, Introduction to Afro-American Writing, Reading American Reading.

AWARDS:
2000 Finalist in Poetry, Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Grant

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Semaphore, book manuscript completed and under submission' "Chivalric Sentimentalism: The Case of Dr. Howe and Laura Bridgman," in Mary Chapman and Glenn Hendler, ed., Sentimental Men: Masculinity and the Politics of Affect in Nineteenth Century America (University of California Press: Berkeley, 1999);

POETRY:
"Reward of Adversaries," "Playa Quemada," "Good to Go" The Paris Review; "State Song," Southwest Review (Fall, 1999); "Age" Literal Latté (December/January 1999-2000); "Each Parting," Forthcoming in Seneca Review; "Bouree (From the Third Unaccompanied Suite)," "Anchises, Aeneas, Ascanius," "Ceremony and Coda," "How I Came to Lose You Before We'd Even Met,": Forthcoming in Western Humanities Review.

PROGRAM CONNECTIONS:
American Studies.

PRIMARY FIELDS OF INTEREST:
American Literature and Cultural Studies; theories of reading; contemporary poetry.

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