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Education:

Ph.D.    Indiana University of Pennsylvania

M.A.       Indiana University of Pennsylvania

B.A.        University of Pittsburgh

Publications:

ā€œEnvisioning the Rural Virtual College Classroom: Some Proposals for Inclusivity and Equity.ā€ Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Diversity and Equity in a Virtual World. Eds. Emily K. Reeves and Christina Janise McIntyre. IGI Global, 2022. Pp. 257-71.
 
Solidarity with the Other Beings on the Planet: Alice Walker, Ecofeminism, and Animals in Literature. Northwestern University Press, 2020.
 
ā€œReview of David Cowartā€™s The Tribe of Pyn: Literary Generations in the Postmodern Period.ā€ Studies in the Novel 48.3 (2016): 386-87.
 
 ā€œAlice Walker on Animal Ethics in Her Fiction: An Interview.ā€ Womenā€™s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 44.1 (2015): 99-116. Reprinted in Activism: Voices for Change, Routledge, 2016.
 
ā€œLanguage and Historical Memory in Gloria Naylorā€™s Mama Day.ā€ The Power of the Word: The Sacred and the Profane. Ed. Patsy Daniels. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2015.
 
 ā€œSubverting Heteronormativity: Another Look at Alice Walkerā€™s By the Light of My Fatherā€™s Smile.ā€ Womenā€™s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 40.5 (2011): 600-19. 
 
The Fragmented Female Body and Identity: The Postmodern, Feminist, and Multiethnic Writings of Toni Morrison, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Phyllis Alesia Perry, Gayl Jones, Emma PĆ©rez, Paula Gunn Allen, and Kathy Acker, Peter Lang, 2010.
 
 ā€œA Blow-Up Doll on Campus: Invoking Marina Abramovićā€™s Rhythm 0 to Investigate Female Objectification.ā€ The Researcher: An Interdisciplinary Journal 23.1 (2010): 33-50.
 
ā€œFragmentation and Maternal Healing in Tina De Rosaā€™s Paper Fish.ā€ VIA: Voices in Italian Americana 21.2 (2010): 26-35.