I am a Professor of English and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of New Orleans. I am also President of the Constance Fenimore Woolson Society and a former National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow.

Editor, Wielding the Pen: Writings on Authorship by American Women of the Nineteenth Century. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.

"Domestic and Sentimental Fiction," in American History Through Literature,1870-1920. Eds. Tom Quirk and Gary Scharnhorst. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2006. 338-343.

Author, Writing for Immortality: Women and the Emergence of High Literary Culture in America. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. Reviewed in American Literature, New England Quarterly, Legacy, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, Journal of American Studies, Journal of American History, Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, and American Literary Realism.

Author, "Anticipating James, Anticipating Grief: Constance Fenimore Woolson's 'Miss Grief.'" Constance Fenimore Woolson's Nineteenth Century: Essays. Ed. Victoria Brehm. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2001. 191-206.