Education

• Ph.D., Western Michigan University
• M.F.A., Bowling Green State University
• B.A., College of William & Mary in Virginia

Interests

• Children's & Young Adult Literatures and Cultures
• Literature of the Great Depression
• Literature of War/Internment/Occupation
• Pedagogy of Poetry; American Poetry

Selected Talks

“’How Come I Never Learned This?’ Crafting An Alternative Narrative of WWII”  Outlawed: The Naked Truth About Censored Literature for Young People Conference, Fresno CA, April 2015

“Twice Removed: Childhood Under Japanese Occupation In WWII”
National Council of Teachers of English Convention:  Washington, DC  November 2014

“A Little Piece of England:  Race, Place, and National Identity in Narratives of Childhood Internment” International  Conference of Youth and/in Literature:  Lisbon, Portugal  July 2014

“’Just A Thing That’s Happening Now, And We Put Up With It’:  Oral History, National Identity, and Girlhood Under Japanese Internment In WWII” 
Children’s Literature Association Conference:  Columbia, SC June 2014