Department of English

Courses
ENG 221 British Literature II
ENG 311 Teaching Literature to Adolescents
ENG 382 Nature Writing
ENG 495 Language and Literature (Capstone)

Research Interests
Irish studies
Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923)
Short fiction since 1840

Recent Publications
“Emerging Biographical Considerations: William Butler Yeats,” with Eric Binnie, Shirley Kahlert, Lawrence Morris, Julie Rawa, and Amy Smith. National Endowment for the Humanities, September 2008.  Available online. 

“Seamus Heaney.” The Facts on File Companion to British Poetry, 1900 to the Present. Eds. Persoon, James & Robert Watson. New York: Facts on File, 2008. 

“That the Science of Cartography is Limited” (Eavan Boland). The Facts on File Companion to British Poetry, 1900 to the Present. Eds. Persoon, James & Robert Watson. New York: Facts on File, 2008. 

“Easter 1916” (W.B. Yeats). The Facts on File Companion to British Poetry, 1900 to the Present. Eds. Persoon, James & Robert Watson. New York: Facts on File, 2008. 

“Poetry of Irish Independence.” The Facts on File Companion to British Poetry, 1900 to the Present. Eds. Persoon, James & Robert Watson. New York: Facts on File, 2008.

"Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Grooming the Generalist Image in Traditional Academia." Reimagining the Instructorate. Ed. Michael Murphy. New York: Boynton/Cook-Heinemann (forthcoming).