I am a professor of English at York College and of Liberal Studies at the Graduate Center.

I specialize in US literature, women’s literature and history, and women’s and gender studies and have published two books: The Artistry of Anger: Black and White Women’s Literature in America, 1820-1860 (University of North Carolina Press) and Equal Under the Sky: Georgia O’Keeffe and Twentieth-Century Feminism (University of New Mexico Press).