Other Writing and Media

co-authored with Constance Relihan and Virginia Totaro. Thriving after COVID: General Education, Cohorts, and Closing Equity Gaps at Scale.”  AAC&U Liberal Education Blog. 22 April 2021.

Jessica Jones’s Feminism: AKA Alias Gets a Fixed-It.” Jessica Jones: Essays on the First Season. Eds. Tim Rayborn and Abigail Keyes. Jefferson, NC: McFarland Publishing, 2018.

co-authored with Elizabeth Kreydatus.“Case Study: Virginia Commonwealth University.” What Makes the First-Year Seminar High-Impact? An Exploration of Effective Educational  Practices. National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience & Students in Transition. University of South Carolina, 2017.

Who was the Worst Professor at Hogwarts?.” Podcast. Skillset.  MTV News, 14 December 2016.

Wands or Quills? Lessons in Pedagogy from Harry Potter. CEA Forum. 44.2 (2015): 75-91.

“River is Wolverine: Whedon Performs a Sex Change.” The Comics of Joss Whedon. Ed. Valerie Frankel. Jefferson, NC: McFarland Publishing, 2015.

Rev. of This is the Ocean by Robert Krut. West Trade Review. Volume 5. (Spring 2014).

“Lorna Gaye Goodison.” The Literary Encyclopedia. 10 July 2012.

“Grace Nichols.” The Literary Encyclopedia. 29 June 2011.

“College Isn’t Just Job Training and Parties:  Stimulating Critical Thinking with ‘The Freshman.’” Buffy in the Classroom: Essays on Teaching with the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Jodie A. Kreider and Meghan K. Winchell. Jefferson, NC: McFarland Publishing, 2010. 103-113.

“Vivien Eliot.” The Literary Encyclopedia. 26 August 2010.

“Lorna Goodison” and “Guinea Woman.” The Facts on File Companion to British Poetry 1900 to the Present. Eds. Rob Watson and Jim Persoon. New York: Facts on File, Inc., 2009.

“The Muse Writes Back: Vivien Eliot’s Response to High Modernism.” Philological Quarterly, 84:4 (Fall 2005): 451-78. Published Fall 2007.

“William Stafford,” “James Dickey,” and “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.”  A Companion to Twentieth-Century American Poetry. Ed. Burt Kimmelman. New York: Facts on File Inc, 2005.

Co-author with Robert Newman and Jean Bohner. Uncommon Threads: Reading and Writing About Contemporary America. Addison, Wesley, Longman, 2003.

Co-author with Robert Newman and Jean Bohner. Instructor’s Manual to Accompany Uncommon Threads. Addison, Wesley, Longman, 2003.

“(Re)-Writing the Marginalised Body:  Grace Nichols’s The Fat Black Woman’s Poems.” Ed. Martin Japtok. Postcolonial Perspectives on Women Writers from Africa, the Caribbean and the U.S. Africa World Press, 2003.

Commissioned Entries on Dora Carrington, Ottoline Morrell, Mina Loy, Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Casa Guido Windows, Mary Astell’s A Serious Proposal to the Ladies, and Christina Rossetti’s Goblin Market and Other Poems. The Cambridge Guide to Women’s Writing in English. Ed. Lorna Sage. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999.