Regular Faculty

Research Interests

Fairy-Tale Studies; Feminist Theory and Gender Studies; Critical Race Theory; Monster Studies; Popular Culture

Selected Publications

• "Fantasies of Femininity Redressed: Angela Carter's Authorial Self-Fashioning." In Fashion and Authorship, ed. Gerald Egan (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020): 297-320.
• "The Vampire, the Queer, and the Girl: Reflections on the Politics and Ethics of Immortality's Gendering." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 44.1 (2018): 3-24.
• "Masculinity and Melancholia at the Virtual End: Leaving the World (of Warcraft)." differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 28.3 (2017): 44-66.
• "Imperial Marvels: Race and the Colonial Imagination in the Fairy Tales of Madame D'Aulnoy." Narrative Culture 3.2 (2017): 141-179.
• "Snow White and the Trickster: Race and Genre in Helen Oyeyemi's Boy, Snow, Bird." Western Folklore 75.3-4 (2016): 371-396.
• Erotic Infidelities: Love and Enchantment in Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber. (Wayne State UP, 2014)
• Body Language: Sisters in Shape, Black Women's Fitness, and Feminist Identity Politics. (Temple UP, 2011)
• New Age Capitalism: Making Money East of Eden. (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000)
• "The Political Lives of Avatars: Play and Democracy in Virtual Worlds." Western Folklore 69.3-4 (2010): 99-124.
• "Girl: Stories on the Way to Feminism." In A Narrative Compass, ed. Betsy Hearne and Roberta Trites (University of Illinois Press, 2009). 19-30.
• "This Text Which is Not One: Dialectics of Self and Culture in Exploratory Auto-Ethnography." Journal of Folklore Research, May/December 2002.
• "Serial Logic: Folklore and Difference in the Age of Feel-Good Multiculturalism." Journal of American Folklore 113 (2000): 70-82.