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My areas of research and teaching are 19th century American literature and culture and 20th century modernisms. I am particularly interested in gender studies, feminist and psychoanalytic theory and the problems of modern literary biography. Prior books include The Origins of Faulkner's Art (1984). My current book project is a group biography whose focus is William Faulkner's imaginative development in the context of his relationships with his black and white "mothers" and with the woman who became his wife. It is the first to include full scale biographical profiles of these three generations of North Mississippi women. Essays based on research for this project have appeared in Faulkner and the Craft of Fiction, eds. Ann Abadie and Doreen Fowler; Out of Bounds: Male Writers and Gender(ed) Criticism, eds. Laurie Claridge and Elizabeth Langland; and in Prospects, An Annual of American Cultural Studies 22 (1997). My research is supported by fellowships from The American Council of Learned Societies, The National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy. Other novelists and poets on whom I have written include Henry James, Edith Wharton, T.S. Eliot, and Conrad Aiken. |
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