Education
- Ph.D., University of Illinois
Courses Taught
- EN 101 Roots: Food and Identity in Literature (Messina)
- EN 101 Madness and Creativity in Modern Literature (Messina)
- EN 101 Time Travel and Social Justice (Messina)
- EN 206 Gender, Culture, and Madness (co-taught with Professor Amy Wolfson)
- EN 372 Modern Poetry
- EN 372 Modernist Poetry and the First World War
- EN 470 Poetry in Public
- EN 483 Radicals and Pretenders: Bohemianism in Modern Literature
- EN 487 At Home in the World: Place and Displacement in Contemporary Literature
Publications
- 鈥淛. Saunders Redding and the 'Surrender鈥� of African American Women鈥檚 Poetry.鈥� PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association. 132.2 (March 2017): 281-297.
- Review of Victoria Bazin鈥檚 Modernism Edited: Marianne Moore and the Dial Magazine (Edinburgh UP, 2019). Journal of Modern Periodical Studies 12.1 (2021): 126-131.
- Review of Selected Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay: An Annotated Edition (Yale UP, 2016). Legacy 35.1 (2018): 116-119.
- 鈥淪ara Teasdale.鈥� The American Writers Series. Supplement XXVII. Ed. Jay Parini. Gale, Cengage Learning, 2017.
- 鈥淔orgiving the Sonnet: Modernist Women鈥檚 Love Poetry and the Problem of Sentimentality.鈥� A History of Twentieth-Century American Women鈥檚 Poetry. Ed. Linda Kinnahan. Cambridge University Press, 2016. 307-322.
- 鈥溾�榃ho鈥檚 for the road?鈥�: Poet Lore, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and the Open Road of Nineteenth-Century American Poetry.鈥� Poet Lore. 109.3-4 (Fall/Winter 2014): 119-134.
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鈥溾�楯eweled Bindings鈥�: Modernist Women鈥檚 Poetry and the Limits of Sentimentality.鈥� Oxford Handbook of Modern and Contemporary American Poetry. Ed. Cary Nelson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. 96-119.
- 鈥溾�楬ow autocratic our country is becoming鈥�: The Sentimental Poetess at War.鈥� Journal of Modern Literature 32.2 (Winter 2009): 41-64.
- ".鈥� (Co-authored with Cristina Stanciu). The Chronicle of Higher Education. 22 Jan. 2012. Web.>
- ." Review of Susan Somers-Willett The Cultural Politics of Slam Poetry (University of Michigan Press, 2009). Poetry & Popular Culture. Web.