Education:
Ph.D., English Literature (18th Century, Romantic, Victorian), University of Maryland, 1977
M.A., English Literature, University of Maryland, 1972
B.A., English, Antioch College, 1970

Courses Frequently Taught:
Gateway: Oppression and Outrage
Humanities 104: World of Ideas, The Modern Era
Film Aesthetics 110: Film Aesthetics
Film Aesthetics 120: Japanese Film & Aesthetics
English 170: Women and Literature
English 220: The Play’s the Thing
English 245: Comedy of Manners
English 343: Restoration/18th Century
English 346: Victorian Literature
English 361: Gender and the Novel
English 366: Romance: The Genre
English 480: Comedy of Manners by Women

Selected Publications/Presentations:
—Master Space: Film Images of Capra, Lubitsch, Sternberg, and Wyler. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1992.
—“Barbara Pym’s Subversive Subtext: Private Irony and Shared Detachment.” Independent Women: The Function of Gender in the Novels of Barbara Pym, ed. Janice Rossen. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1988. 82-94.
—“When Women Speak: Female Linguistic Codes.” Convener and speaker, Special Section, Modern Language Association Convention, 1986.
—“Victoria Holt’s Gothic Romances: A Structuralist Inquiry.” Female Gothic, ed. Janice Rossen. St. Albans, Vt.: Eden Press, 1983. 69-80.
—“Having Students Write about Film in Non-Film Courses.” Journal of Teaching Writing 4 (1985): 290-94.
—“Teaching Students to Write about Film.” Maryland Composition Review 3 (1982), 2-7.

Faculty Status:
Tenure track, at IWU since 1976; retiring after 2009-10 academic year

Research Interests:
Relation of gender to genre, film space in narrative film, and Frances Sheridan.