I am a Ph.D. candidate in the English Department at Boston College. I'm now dedicating all my time to developing my dissertation, which will look at cross-cultural encounters in early America.

Links:
Literary Field Guide : An online project created by the students of EN 141
Bibliography: A collection of texts relevant to my research

Teaching:
EN 133: Narrative and Interpretation (Spring 2005): Narrative and Interpretation is the second of two courses all English majors at Boston College are required to take. Course goals include gaining an understanding of the practice of literary scholarship and developing the critical skills useful in the major. That means writing a lot of essays--and reading a wide variety of texts to sample the diversity of choices those who study literature are so lucky to have. In our section, these ranged from Moby-Dick to Joe Sacco's Palestine.

EN 141: American Literary History I (Fall 2004): This was a survey course, the first in a three-part series offered by the English department. As it covers 240 years (John Smith to Emily Dickinson), it's a faced-paced course; we enjoyed connecting the debates in these "foundational" texts to the debates of our own time, from environmentalism the 2004 election. Since Boston was such a key locale for American history of the period, each student reported on a visit they made to a site with relevance to the course, creating a group project on the web, linked at left.

EN 82: Literature and Society (Fall 2003)

EN 10: First-Year Writing Seminar (Spring 2004)