I am an Associate Dean in the College of Arts & Sciences at Bowling Green State University. I am also a professor of English and American Culture Studies and an affiliated faculty member in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program. From 2016 to 2023, I served as Director of the Institute for the Study of Culture & Society (ICS), an interdisciplinary public humanities center at BGSU. (See Leadership & Administration for more information.)

I earned my BA in English from Northwestern University and my MA and PhD from the University of Virginia.

I am the author of two books and numerous articles and book chapters. (See Scholarship for details.) I regularly teach courses in American literature and popular culture since the Civil War, multiethnic American literature, American Studies, and literary theory and cultural studies. I am involved in digital humanities work, especially relating to digital curation. (See Digital Humanities for details.) In 2017-2018, I serve as a member of the Education Advisory Committee of the Digital Public Library of America. I have also co-written a series of articles about shared governance and effective leadership development in higher education. (See Leadership & Administration).

I am passionate about collaboration and mentorship, both at my own institution and across institutions. In Summer 2019, I served as an American Studies Association delegate to the Japanese Association for American Studies conference at Hosei University in Tokyo, sponsored by the Japan-United States Friendship Commission. In Summer 2017, I participated in an NEH Summer Institute, “Understanding Im/Migration: Local and Global Perspectives” at BGSU. In Summer 2014, I participated in the NEH Summer Institute, “Finding Mississippi in the National Civil Rights Narrative: Struggle, Institution Building, and Power at the Local Level,” at Jackson State University.

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