My literary scholarship focuses on the early 20th century, with emphasis on the interwar period. I am especially interested in the mutually constitutive aspects of racial, sexual, and gender identity and how anxiety about these elements predominate narratives about motherhood.

I also specialize in digital learning pedagogies and the scholarship of teaching and learning.

Selected Presentations and Publications

“Innovation’s Handmaids.” Under review.

“Black Swan: Passing For What, Again?” Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Conference. Rochester NY, March 16, 2012.

“What It Really Takes To Support Eportfolios.” WordCamp NYC. Baruch College, CUNY, November 14, 2009.

“Forging New Paths: The Macaulay Eportfolio Collection.” Annual National Collegiate Honors Council, Washington, DC, October 30, 2009 (co-presenter)

“Forging New Paths: The Macaulay Eportfolio Collection.” Annual CUNY IT Conference. John Jay College, CUNY, December 5, 2008. (co-presenter)

“And then you were enmeshed in all sorts of complications: Jean Rhys’s Use of Second-Person Narration.” International Conference on Narrative. Washington DC. March 16, 2007.

“I will not like this place I will not like this place I will not like this place: Jean Rhys’s Cosmopolitan Nightmare.” Literature and the City: The English Students’ Association Annual Conference. The Graduate Center, CUNY, March 24, 2006.

“Unsafe ‘Sanctuary’: Nella Larsen and the Problem of Plagiarism.” Modernist Studies Association Conference. Vancouver BC, Canada, October 2004.

“Race, Intimacy and Reproduction on The L Word.” Locating Love: The English Students’ Association Annual Conference, The Graduate Center, CUNY, March 2004.

“Tulips, Cherries, and Skin: Jeanette Winterson’s Grafted Modernism.” Northeastern Modern Language Association Annual Conference. Pittsburgh PA, March 2004.

“Narrative Eye: After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie and Jean Rhys’s View from Elsewhere.” Reflections in the Mirror: English Students’ Association Annual Conference. The Graduate Center, CUNY, March 2002.

“Greatest Mother” poster courtesy of WW1propaganda.com