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TEACHING AND INTERESTS
Poetry and poetics, African-American literature, ethnic literatures of the United States, modernism, environmental writing and ecoliterature, and stylistics/grammar.
PUBLICATIONS
"'A Real Honest-to-Cripe Jungle': Contested Authenticities in Helene Johnson's 'Bottled'": Modernism/Modernity (14)3, September 2007. Her
article is part of a cluster of papers on "Modernist Authenticities," and is based on scholarly conversations that took place at the annual meeting of the Modernist Studies Association.
"'Sprung from American Soil': the "Nature" of Africa in the Poetry of Helene Johnson." Forthcoming in Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment.
"Quattro poesie di Jimmy Santiago Baca." Acoma 25. (Rome) Winter 2003. 73-79. Translation Sonia Di Loreto.