Associate Professor of English

Graduate Director

Education: 


Ph.D. English Literature, 1997

University of California, Riverside

Fields: Restoration and Eighteenth Century British Literature,

Colonialism and Post-Coloniality

Daniel Defoe

Dissertation: Bows Without Arrows: The Role of ‘Native Agency’ in the Travel Narratives of Daniel Defoe and Other English Texts 1668-1790 (viii, 324 leaves) Call number: PR3403.Z5 .G47 1997

M.A. English Literature, 1993

University of California, Riverside

Fields: Medieval and Renaissance Drama

Restoration and Eighteenth Century British Literature

B.A. English, cum laude, 1991

University of California, Riverside

Minor: Classical Studies

Attended Newbold College (1987-1989 Bracknell, England) where she first discovered her passion for the literature of Great Britain.

Teaching Areas:
 British literature of the early seventeenth-century, Restoration and eighteenth-century; literature and the environment; rise of the novel; colonialism and post-coloniality; graduate research; literary theory and criticism.

Research: Applying ecocriticism, new historicism, and postcolonial theory to the works of English literature between 1600-1800. She has published on the depiction of English nationalism, masculinity, and the monarchy in Restoration and Eighteenth Century Theatre Research and on the spiritual symbolism of grammatical anomalies in John Donne’s poetry in The Explicator. She contributed a book chapter, “’A Vast Howling Wilderness’: The Problem of Space and Placeslessness in the Defoe’s Captain Singleton,” to New Approaches to Daniel Defoe (AMS Press, 2012).

Curriculum Vita