EDUCATION

1962‑1966 University of Rochester English BA cum laude, 1966, MA 1967, Ph.D. 1975.

ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

(A) BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS

Alone in the Dawn: The Life of Adelaide Crapsey. Athens: University of Georgia Press, December 1988.

(B) REFEREED ARTICLES

1) “The Decline of the Waistline: A Study of the Shape of the Classic American Heroine,” American Studies International XIX, 1, Autumn, 1980, 39‑50.

2) “Poetry by Women in America: Aesthetics in Evolution,” The Canadian Review of American Studies 14, 3, Autumn, 1983, 239‑57.

3) “The Birth of the Poet’s Mind: Theodore Roethke’s ‘Where Knock Is Open Wide’,” Contemporary Poetry V, 2, 1983, 17‑41.

4) “Quilting Significance: ‘A Jury of Her Peers’,” Studies in Short Fiction, V. 21, No. 1, Winter, 1984, 1‑9. Reprinted in: A Casebook on “A Jury of Her Peers,” ed. Linda Ben Zvi, University of Michigan Press, 1998.

5) “Death, Order, and Poetry: ‘The Presentation Piece’ of Adelaide Crapsey,” American Literature, May 1985, 263‑290.

6) “’Keeping the Edge of Deprivation Sharp’: Adelaide Crapsey’s “To the Dead in the Grave‑Yard Under my Window’,” The Explicator V. 43, No. 2, Winter 1985, 25‑28.

7) “Lilies that Fester: A Reading of Rich’s ‘An Unsaid Word’,” The Explicator V. 43, No. 2, Winter, 1985, 53‑56.

8) “Woman in a Trap: Pope’s ‘Eloisa to Abelard’,” College Literature V. XIII No. 3, Fall, 1986, 272‑285. Reprinted in: College Literature V. XV No. 3, Fall 1988, 249‑262 (Special 15^th Anniversary Edition of Best Articles in College Literature).

9) “Form and the Feminist Revolution,” Poesis, 7:1, 1986, 35‑54.

10) “Subversion and