About
I am currently Program Manager for Professional Development at the Modern Language Association. I also serve as the staff liaison to the executive committee of the Association of Departments of English, and the co-staff liaison to the Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Humanities and the Committee on Community Colleges.
Prior to beginning work at the MLA in January 2022, I was Professor and Chair of English and Creative Writing at Widener University.
Modernism, Narrative, Narrative Theory, Life Writing, Gender, Sexuality, Women’s Studies, Professional Development, Mentoring, Pedagogy, Scholarly Communication / Publishing Education
PhD, English and 20th Century Studies, Graduate Center of the City University of New York, 2003 Publications
Howard Cruse (2023, U of Mississippi)
Options for Teaching Modernist Women’s Writing (2021, MLA)
The Comics of Alison Bechdel (2020, U of Mississippi P)
Literary Couples and 20th-Century Life Writing: Narrative and Intimacy (2019, Bloomsbury)
Engagements with Narrative (2015, Routledge)
James Joyce and the Revolt of Love: Marriage, Adultery, Desire (2010, Palgrave Macmillan)
articles in Journal of Modern Literature, Life Writing, College Literature, James Joyce Quarterly. Blog Posts
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The Road Towards a PhD
(MLA Grads blog,
2023-04-12)
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Living with Disability in the Time of Coronavirus
(MLA Grads blog,
2023-01-23)
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Call for Submissions—Living with Disability in the Time of Coronavirus
(MLA Grads blog,
2022-03-30)
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Tromanhauser, “Dining at the Modernist Table: Teaching Food in Women’s Interwar Writing”
(Teaching Modernist Women’s Writing in English,
2020-06-25)
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Welcome to the MSA on MLA Commons
(News and Views from the Modernist Studies Association,
2020-01-30)
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Golden, “Digital Landscapes: Mapping Global Modernist Women Writers”
(Teaching Modernist Women’s Writing in English,
2018-04-16)
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Cheney, “How to Write and Gertrude Stein and How to Read”
(Teaching Modernist Women’s Writing in English,
2018-04-14)
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Kopley, “Teaching the Revisions of Woolf and Others”
(Teaching Modernist Women’s Writing in English,
2018-04-09)
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Cucullu, “Assigning Dorothy Richardson’s Difficult Modernist Firsts”
(Teaching Modernist Women’s Writing in English,
2018-04-09)
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REMINDER: CFP: The Comics of Alison Bechdel (edited collection; DEADLINE 12/1/16)
(Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing,
2016-11-03)
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CELJ on the MLA Commons
(Council of Editors of Learned Journals,
2016-09-01)
Memberships
Modern Language Association
Modernist Studies Association
The Space Between Society
Feminist inter/Modernist Association
Community College Humanities Association
Council of Editors of Learned Journals
POD Network
