BA, University of New Mexico, 1981; MA (1984), PhD (1986), Cornell University
The American Renaissance, late 19th- and early 20th-century American women writers, Native American literature
Emerson, congregation response to early 19th-century American sermons, women's autobiographical writing, feminist biography
- The Critical Reception of Emerson: Unsettling All Things (Camden House, 2000)
- Anna Tilden, Unitarian Culture and the Problem of Self-Representation (University of Georgia Press, 1997)
- Articles in ESQ, Studies in the American Renaissance and the Emily Dickinson Journal
