Education

Ph.D. Candidate German Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Dissertation:  “Literature and Literary Criticism in the German Women’s Periodical Press; 1848-1919”

Director:  James Steakley

Graduation expected August 2001

M.A. German Literature, Mississippi State University
Graduated May 1991 cum laude

B.A. German Literature and Language, Montana State University
Graduated March 1989 summa cum laude

Grants and Awards

Vilas Professional Development Fellowship, University of Wisconsin, 1999
German Historical Institute Summer Program, GHI Washington D.C., 1999
University of Wisconsin Scholarship at Bonn Universität, 1999-2000

Academic Positions

Visiting Instructor, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN,  2000-
Adjunct Instructor, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN,  1998-1999
Visiting Instructor, Ripon College, Ripon, WI,  1995-1997
Instructor, Community Colleges of Vermont, St. Albans, VT,  1992-1994
Teaching Assistant, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS  1989-1991

Professional Presentations

“'No Longer Feeling Dirty and Sinful':  Helene Stöcker’s Search for a New Ethic in the New Generation of Turn-of-the-Century Germany.”  Western Association of Women Historians Annual Conference, San Marino, California, June 2000.

“Louise Otto-Peters and Neue Bahnen.”  The German Studies Association Annual Conference, Atlanta, 1999.

“Literary Criticism in Helene Lange’s die Frau.”  University of Pennsylvania Fifth Annual Intersections Conference, Philadelphia, 1999.

Professional Memberships

Modern Language Association
German Studies Association
Western Association of Women Historians
Women in German