Courses Frequently Taught
ENG 261: Women in Literature; ENG 302: Advanced Writing: Writing About Literature; ENG 325: American Literature to 1900; ENG 417: The Romantic Age in American Literature; ENG 418: Realism & Naturalism in American Literature; ENG 422: American Women Writers; ENG 615: Graduate Seminar on Whitman & Dickinson; ENG 672: Graduate Seminar in Literary Criticism

Honors and Awards
Distinguished Alumni Award, University at Albany, June 2004; Outstanding Achievement in Research Award, SUNY Cortland, Spring 2004; SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship, Spring 2002; SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, Spring 2002; Professor of the Year Award, Sigma Tau Delta Honor Society, SUNY Cortland, Spring 2002.

Committees / Department/ College Service
Chair, Department Graduate MA Committee; Department Personnel Committee; College Teaching Awards Committee; Committee on Chancellor's Awards for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities; Editorial Board of American Literary Realism; Editorial Board, University of Alabama Press, Series on American Literary Realism and Naturalism; National Judges Panel, National Women’s Hall of Fame, Seneca Falls

Recent Publications
BOOKS AND EDITIONS:  The Selected Letters of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, co-edited with Jennifer S. Tuttle, University of Alabama Press, forthcoming, 2009; Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Her Contemporaries: Literary and Intellectual Contexts, co-edited with Cynthia J. Davis, University of Alabama Press, 2004; Writers of the American Renaissance: An A-Z Guide, Greenwood Press, 2003; Wharton's Ethan Frome and Summer, New Riverside Editions, 2003; Approaches to Teaching Gilman's Herland and "The Yellow Wall-Paper," co-edited with Cynthia J. Davis, Modern Language Association, 2002; Herland and Selected Stories of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Penguin Classics, 1999; The Abridged Diaries of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, University Press of Virginia, 1998; Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Study of the Short Fiction, Twayne Studies in Short Fiction, Twayne Publishers, 1997; Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook, Greenwood Press, 1997; Unpunished: A Detective Novel by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, co-edited with Catherine J. Golden, Feminist Press, 1997; The Later Poetry of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, University of Delaware Press, 1996; The Diaries of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a two-volume critical edition, University Press of Virginia, 1994; "The Yellow Wall-Paper" and Selected Stories of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, University of Delaware Press, 1994.

Other Interests
animal rescue, hiking, traveling, bird watching, theatre, antiques