| I grew up in Minnesota and completed my doctoral studies at the University of Texas at Austin, where I researched the cultural work of Irish nationalist women, both north and south, in the 20th century.
Since arriving at TCU in 1996, I have taught graduate and undergraduate courses in 20th century British and Irish literature, cultural studies, women's studies and post-colonial literatures and theories. My research concerns the intersection of gender and nationalism in modern Irish culture: Maud Gonne's Irish Nationalist Writings (Irish Academic Press, 2003) recovers and analyzes the political and literary achievement of Irish activist Maud Gonne. Women, Press, and Politics during the Irish Revival (Syracuse UP, 2007) critically examines women's writing in the advanced nationalist press from 1890-1920.
Current book project, tentatively titled Nothing to Declare but My Genius, explores gender and celebrity in Irish travel writing from the last two centuries.
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