BA University of New Mexico 1981; MA, PhD Cornell University 1984, 1986
The American Renaissance, late 19th and early 20th century American women writers, Native American literature
Emerson, congregation response to early 19th century American sermons, women's autobiographical writing, feminist biography
The Critical Reception of Emerson: Unsettling All Things (Camden House, 2000); Anna Tilden, Unitarian Culture and the Problem of Self-Representation (University of Georgia Press, 1997); articles in ESQ, Studies in the American Renaissance and the Emily Dickinson Journal