Education

• Ph.D., Indiana University
• M.A., Indiana University
• B.A., Ohio University

Interests

• Gothic Studies
• Film Criticism
• Popular Culture Studies
• Teaching Popular Culture in the Composition Classroom
• Literary and Filmic Representations of the Family
• Jane Austen Studies

Selected Publications

Mirror on America: Essays and Images from Popular Culture. Fifth Edition. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2011. Co-edited with Joan T. Mims.

Family Matters in the British and American Novel. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1997. Co-edited with Andrea O'Reilly Herrera and Sheila Reitzel Foor. Reprinted by University of Wisconsin Press, 2002.

"Fatherhood Lost and Regained in the Novels of Anne Tyler." Family Matters in the British and American Novel. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1997: 217-236.