Department of English

Courses
ENG 204 World Mythology
ENG 226 American Literature II: from 1860
ENG 320 Studies in Poetry
ENG 382 Nature Writing
ENG 383 "Make it New": Literary Modernism

Research Interests
As a scholar, I am active in exploring what James Joyce might term the "chaosmos" of modern poetry, especially poetry written in various visual modes. As a reader and seer of visual-verbal conjunctions, I am also interested in the literary and linguistic phenomenon known as iconicity, or form miming meaning. I am currently coordinator of the E. E. Cummings Society, as well as serving as editor of the society's journal, Spring, in both its print and online versions.

Recent Publications
"Cummings's Silent Numerical Iconic Prosody." Media inter Media: Essays in Honor of Claus Clüver. Ed. Stephanie Glaser. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2010. 423-438.

Review of Isabelle Alfandary's E. E. Cummings, ou la minuscule lyrique in Spring: The Journal of the E. E. Cummings Society 16 (2007): 176-181.

"Postfazione." E. E. Cummings: Poesie D’Amore. Trans. Salvatore Di Giacomo. Firenze: Le Lettere, 2009. 127-133.

"The Enormous Room: A Dada of One's Own," Spring: The Journal of the E. E. Cummings Society 14-15 (2005-2006): 127-140.

"'floating particles of paper': E. E. Cummings' Collage Poems," Cahiers Charles V 34 (September 2003): 51-73. [Collage / Montage / Assemblage: Poésie Anglaise et Américaine Ed. Paul Volsik]

"Poemgroups in No Thanks," Spring: The Journal of the E. E. Cummings Society 11 (2002): 10-40.

"E. E. Cummings: The New Nature Poetry and the Old," Spring: The Journal of the E. E. Cummings Society 9 (2000): 109-124. 

Education
B.A., DePauw University
M.A., Boston University
Ph.D., Indiana University