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   Scholarship
   Research Interests:
   Narrative theory, genre theory, and the history of novel, emphasizing:
 
   1) Studies of Vladimir Nabokov
 
   2) Detective fiction and its influence on postmodernist literature; and
 
   3) Feminist narratology, especially the works of Edith Wharton and Anne Tyler, and
   the revision of traditional narrative genres by other female writers
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  To learn more about these writers and these narrative genres, look at my Research.
  For Publications, turn to page 6.  Or turn back to Teaching and Administration on page 4.