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Current research areas:
art history; Arthurian legend; Bryher; Chaucer; Cyprus; film; Hemingway; modern poetry
Recent scholarly activity:
~ Presented paper: “The Books He Borrowed: An Annotation of the Books Listed on Hemingway’s Shakespeare & Co Lending Library Card, October 1925 – April 1926, Just Before The Sun Rose” for the panel on “The Sun Also Rises and the Functions of Paris” at the 18th Biennial Hemingway Society International Conference (Paris, France, July 2018)
~ Chair/Moderator for the panel on “Art, Anxiety, and Humor in Two Stories and One Novel” at the 18th Biennial Hemingway Society International Conference (Paris, France, July 2018)
~ Moderator for the panel on "Fathers, Mentors, and Surrogates in Hemingway's Life and Fiction" at the 17th Biennial Hemingway Society International Conference (Oak Park, Illinois, July 2016)
~ Moderator for the panel on “Stein, Cézanne, Joyce: Influences on In Our Time” at the 16th Biennial Hemingway Society International Conference. (Venice, Italy, June 2014)
~ Presented paper: “We have to take a stand, I suppose’: The Consequences of Apathy in Bryher’s Visa for Avalon,” at 38th Annual Conference of the Society for Utopian Studies: Utopia and Freedom. (Charleston, SC, November 2013)
~ Moderator for the panel on “The Nick Adams of In Our Time: Fact, Fiction, and Metaphor” at the 15th Biennial Hemingway Society International Conference. (Petoskey-Bay View, Michigan, June 2012)
Recent publications:
- Matrimonies: Poems. Finishing Line Press, 2023.
- “A Modernist Echo: Bryher’s Visa for Avalon and Morris’s Earthly Paradise.” Newsletter of the William Morris Society in the United States (January 2013): 7-8.
- “Come Again? The Contexts of Bryher’s Visa for Avalon.” Topic: The Washington and Jefferson College Review – Utopia/Dystopia Issue 56 (2010): 49-66.
- “Puttering about in the Mindfields.” TIS/The Independent Scholar 21:1 (Spring 2007): 11-15.
- “The Book of Margery Kempe.” Encyclopedia of Women’s Autobiography. Eds. Jo Malin and Victoria Boynton. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005.
- individual poems and creative nonfiction in assorted literary journals (sporadic but ongoing since 1985)
Forthcoming research:
Retractatio, or The Matter of Britain as Revisioned in Bryher's Historical Fiction (proposed dissertation - on hiatus)
Other activities:
Member of Advisory Board of Paris Press (Ashfield, Massachusetts) - founded in 1995, PP ceased operation in 2018, with its backlist going to Wesleyan University Press
Manuscript reader for The Hemingway Review
Book reviewer and manuscript reader for The Massachusetts Review
Freelance editor
Poet and essayist