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Research Interests<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Composition; literary theory; British literature 1880\u20131930; gender studies; World War I; Robert Frost; artificial intelligence and natural language generation<\/span><\/p>\n

Teaching Interests<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Rhetoric; writing; the essay<\/p>\n

Selected Publications<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Books<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Pursuing Happiness: A Bedford Spotlight Reader\u00a0<\/span><\/em>(with Dawn Skorzcewski, Brandeis University). Boston: Bedford\/St. Martins, 2015. (A single-themed reader for writing courses.)<\/p>\n

Writing in Response: A Short Rhetoric.<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>Boston: Bedford\/St. Martins, 2011. Second edition, 2015. (380 pp.)<\/p>\n

Conflicts and Crises in the Composition Classroom \u2014 And What Instructors Can Do About Them.\u00a0<\/span><\/em>Edited collection, with Dawn Skorczewski (Brandeis U.) Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann\/Boynton-Cook, 2003.<\/p>\n

Cultural Conversations: The Presence of the Past\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/em>(with Regina Hansen, Boston U., and Stephen Dilks, U. of Missouri at Kansas City).\u00a0 Boston: Bedford\/St. Martins, 2001.<\/p>\n

Book in Progress<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Comrade Love: Inversion and Friendship in the Literature of the First World War.<\/em>\u00a0 In progress.<\/p>\n

Selected Articles<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u201c1908, Carpenter Publishes\u00a0<\/span>The Intermediate Sex\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/em>In\u00a0<\/span>Great Events from History: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Events.\u00a0<\/span><\/em>(Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2006) 55-58.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnthem for Doomed Youth.\u201d In\u00a0<\/span>Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition<\/em>. Ed. Tracy Irons-Georges.\u00a0 Pasadena: Salem Press, Jan, 2002.<\/p>\n

\u201cComplete Poems of Robert Frost, 1949\u201d and \u201cTwo Witches.\u201d\u00a0 In\u00a0<\/span>The Robert Frost Encyclopedia<\/em>. Ed. Nancy Tuten, et al. Greenwood Publishing, 2000.<\/p>\n

\u201cT. E. Lawrence\u201d and \u201cRomantic Friendships (in literature).\u201d In\u00a0<\/span>The Reader\u2019s Guide to Lesbian and Gay Studies.<\/em>\u00a0 Ed. Tim Murphy.\u00a0 Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2000.<\/p>\n

\u201cWar,\u201d \u201cWilfred Owen\u201d and \u201cT. E. Lawrence.\u201d In\u00a0<\/span>The Encyclopedia of Gay Histories and Cultures,<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>Volume 2.\u00a0 Ed. George E. Haggerty. Garland Publishing, 1999.<\/p>\n

\u201cA Yield of Whispers: Frost\u2019s \u2018Mowing\u2019 and Heidegger\u2019s \u2018Earth and World\u2019\u201d\u00a0<\/span>Budhi<\/em>\u00a0 2:2 (Fall, 1998) 43-61.<\/p>\n

\u201cWriting With a Computer,\u201d Chapter 21 of\u00a0<\/span>The Bedford Guide for College Writers,<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>fifth edition, by X. J. Kennedy, Dorothy M. Kennedy and Sylvia A. Holladay.\u00a0 (Boston: Bedford\/St. Martin\u2019s, 1999).<\/p>\n

\u201cReading Poetry with Ricoeur\u2019s Dialectical Hermeneutics.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>Budhi<\/em>\u00a0 (Spring, 1997).<\/p>\n

\u201cFrost\u2019s \u2018Modern Georgics.\u2019\u201d\u00a0<\/span>The Robert Frost Review,<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>(Fall 1996), 54-70.<\/p>\n

\u201cWar Literature\u201d and \u201cT. E. Lawrence\u201d in\u00a0<\/span>The Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage.<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>Ed. Claude J. Summers. (Henry Holt, 1995.)<\/p>\n

Review of Norman Holland,\u00a0<\/span>The Brain of Robert Frost,<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>in\u00a0<\/span>Textual Practice,<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>(Winter 1990).<\/p>\n

Other Professional Activity and\/or Awards<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Peyton Richter Award\u00a0for interdisciplinary teaching (2002)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13125,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/35909"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13125"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/35909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49044,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/35909\/revisions\/49044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}