• • Ph.D., McGill University
  • M.A., McGill University
  • B.A., University of Illinois

• • Notable UT Woman of the Year award, Commission for Women, University of Tennessee, 2018

• • D. Allen Carroll Distinguished Teaching Professor, 2015-2017

• • Conferred as Distinguished Member of The National Society of Collegiate Scholars, Fall, 2015.

• • James R. and Nell W. Cunningham Outstanding Teaching Award, College of Arts & Sciences, The University of Tennessee, 2012

• • Chancellor’s Citation for Extraordinary Service to the University, The University of Tennessee, April 2012

• • Chancellor’s Citation for Extraordinary Contribution to the Ready for the World Initiative, The University of Tennessee, April 2010

• • Elected a Fellow of the Society for Values in Higher Education, 2001

• • Elected to Phi Kappa Phi, 1999

• • College of Arts & Sciences Senior Faculty Teaching Award, 1998-99

• • John C. Hodges Excellence in Teaching Award, 1987

• • The Narrow House by Evelyn Scott. Critical Introduction. University of Tennessee Press, 2021. Pages vii-xxvii.

• • “Naturalism’s Children: Unruly Naturalism in Works by Darcy Steinke, Joyce Carol Oates, and Lynda Barry,” Studies in American Naturalism 11.2 (Winter 2016): 56-70.

• • Twisted from the Ordinary: Essays on American Literary Naturalism (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2003)

• • Susan Glaspell: A Research and Production Sourcebook (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1992)

• • Verging on the Abyss: The Social Fiction of Kate Chopin and Edith Wharton (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1990).

Representative articles

• • “Feminar 103: Notes on Teaching about Women, Gender and Sexuality,” The Forum: The Present and Future of Higher Education, 12 October 2020.

• • “Feminar 102: Notes on Teaching about Women, Gender and Sexuality,” The Forum: The Present and Future of Higher Education. 29 December 2019.

• • “Feminar 101: Notes on Teaching about Women, Gender and Sexuality,” The Forum: The Present and Future of Higher Education. 10 June 2019.

• • “Naturalism and Commodity Culture” in The Oxford Handbook of American Literary Naturalism, ed. by Keith Newlin (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011): 291-306.

• • “The ‘Other Countries’ of the Human Mind and Soul: James R. Giles on Twentieth-Century Naturalism,” Studies in American Naturalism, 5.1 (Summer 2010):79-91.

• • “Why Students Should Read Frank Norris First,” with Anne Mayhew, ALN: The American Literary Naturalism Newsletter 4.1-2: 7-11.

• • “So Long As We Read Chopin,” in Awakenings: The Story of the Kate Chopin Revival, ed. by Bernard Koloski (Baton Rouge:  Louisiana State University Press): 77-93.