Ph.D.   English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
M.A.   English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
B.A.     English, Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN (cum laude)

Modern Irish Literature; Creative Writing

“Bringing Real-Life Characters to Life.” Review article on Tóibín’s Beauty in a Broken Place. The Irish Literary Supplement. 25.2 (Spring 2006): 22-23.

“Bringing it Home in a New Key: The Water Horse.”  Rev. of The Water Horse, by Nuala Ni Dhomnaihaill, Eilean Ni Chulinain, and Mebdh McCuchian. Irish Literary Supplement. (Fall 2001).

“Bernard Shaw.”  English Dramatists: 1856-1900. Ed. Katherine E. Kelley.  Greenwood Presses, 1996.

“James Connolly:  A Fit Subject for the Playwright of Serjeant Musgrave’s Dance.”  John Arden/Margaretta D’Arcy, the Garland Press Twentieth-century dramatists series.  1995.

“Quinn’s Book:  Reconstructing American History.” MELUS, Irish-American Issue, (Spring 1993): 31-45.

“Bernard Shaw’s ‘Eternal’ Irish Concerns.” Eire-Ireland 31 (Summer 1986): 57-69.

Twentieth century literature; drama as literature; Introduction to Creative Writing

N.I.C.E  Belfast, Northern Ireland Cultural Exchange Study Grant, 1993.
Research Development Grant, Pennsylvania State University.  Consecutive awards for 1990-91, 1991-92, 1992-93, 1993-1994.