About

As a graduate student, I studied early modern literature and wrote a dissertation on the masque genre’s evolution across the seventeenth century. My interest in genre, and its generative and communicative power, have informed my teaching of literature and academic writing as well as my ventures into linguistics and technical writing. I’ve been teaching for twenty years, most recently at Penn State. At Case, I will be teaching an academic inquiry seminar on the pursuit of happiness. The course will explore research from across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, examining forms of inquiry within the disciplines as well as asking larger questions about how we define and pursue happiness.