BOOKS PUBLISHED:

En Travesti: Women, Gender Subversion, Opera. Juliana Smith. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995.

Milton's Rhetoric: A Guide to the Major Schemes and Figures. Los Angeles: Academic Publishing, University of California, Los Angeles, 1991.

CHAPTERS/SECTIONS PUBLISHED IN BOOKS:

Entry on Prostitution and Rape. Encyclopedia of Rape. Ed. Merril Smith. New York: Garland, forthcoming.

Entries on Elizabeth Bishop, Opera, and Gertrude Stein. An Encyclopedia of Lesbian Histories and Cultures, Ed. Bonnie Zimmerman. New York: Garland, 2000.

"The Veils of the Law: Race and Sexuality in Nella Larsen's Passing." Race-ing Representation: Voice, History, and Sexuality. Ed. Kostas and Linda Myrsiades. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998, 98-116.

"Lesbian Modernism and the Short Stories of Virginia Woolf and Gertrude Stein." Virginia. Ed. Eileen Barrett and Patricia Cramer. New York: New York University Press, 1997, 78-94.

"Selling Taboo Subjects: The Literary Commerce of Carl Van Vechten and Gertrude Stein." Marketing Modernisms: Self-Promotion, Canonization, and Rereading. Ed. Kevin J. H. Dettmar and Steven Watt. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996, 221-52.

"The Ecstasies of Saint Teresa: The Saint as Diva from Crashaw to Four Saints in Three Acts.". Ed. Corinne E. Blackmer and Patricia Juliana Smith."Semiramide, or, the Paradoxes of Opera" (with Patricia Juliana Smith. Introduction to En Travesti: Women, Gender Subversion, Opera. Ed. Corinne E. Blackmer and Patricia Juliana Smith. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995, 1-18.

Entries on Ronald Firbank, Opera (with Patricia Juliana Smith), and Gerttrude Stein. The Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage: A Reader's Companion to the Writers and Their Works. Ed. Claude J. Summers. New York: Henry Holt, 1995, 274-76, 528-32, 681-86.

JOURNAL ARTICLES PUBLISHED:

"Ethnoporn, Lesbian Childhood, and Native Maternal Culture: Reading National Geographic with Elizabeth Bishop." 4.1 (December 1998): 96-141.

"Writing Poetry Like a 'Woman'." 8.4 (Spring 1996): 130-53.

"The Finishing Touch and the Tradition of Girls' School Fictions." Review of Contemporary Fiction 15.3 (Fall 1995): 32-39.

"African Masks and the Arts of Passing in Gertrude Stein's 'Melanctha' and Nella Larsen's Passing." Journal of the History of Sexuality 4.2 (October 1993): 230-63.

BOOK REVIEWS:

"Judaism Tackles Homophobia. A Review of Lesbian Rabbis: The First Generation." 3.2 (Fall 2002): 5-8

Review of Opera in the Flesh: Sexuality in Operatic Performance, by Sam Abel. 8.1 (July 1997): 129-32.

"Historicizing Lesbian Subjects." A Review of Lesbian Subjects: A Feminist Studies Reader, ed. Martha Vicinus. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. Lesbian and Gay Studies Newsletter, Fall 1997.

"The Lesbian in the World." A Review of Lesbian Utopics by Annamarie Jagose. New York: Routledge, 1995. The Lesbian Review of Books. 3.2 (Winter 1997): 21-22.

CONFERENCE PAPERS ORALLY DELIVERED:

An Interdisciplinary, University-Wide Research Conference for Faculty at SCSU. Organized by Profs. David Pettigrow and Pina Palma. Saturday, November 1, 2003

"Non-Oedipal Identity and Birth Order: Freud's Forgotten Theory of Homosexuality." SCSU Interdisciplinary Forum: Teaching and Learning through General Education.

"Birth Order and the Development of Monotheism." CSU Research Conference, 1999.

"Narrative and the Languages of Identification." The Language of Thought: An Interdisciplinary Interrogation. Southern Connecticut State University.

"Melancholic Mothers: Authenticity as Commodity in Contemporary Black Women's Literature." Division Forum: "Cross-Generational Connections II: Black Women's Fictions, Formulas, Markets."

"Evading Categorical Imperatives: Reconstructions of Desire in Lesbian Poetry." Special Session: "Lesbian Lies: Evasions, Resistances, and Modern Sexual Categories."

"Feminism, Popular Culture, and the Public Intellectual Realm." Southern Connecticut State University. Saturday, November 8, 1997.

"Lesbian Modernism in the Shorter Fictions of Virginia Woolf and Gertrude Stein." Seventh Annual Virginia Woolf Conference: Virginia Woolf and Her Influences. Plymouth State College, Plymouth, New Hampshire, June 14, 1997.

"Feminist Pedagogical Perspectives on Sexual Abuse and Sexuality: Teaching Bastard Out of Carolina and The Color Purple." Sixth Annual Women's Studies Conference, SCSU: "Change the Politics: Women Make the Difference." Saturday, October 6, 1996.

Children from the Shadows II: The Celebration of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered Youth. University of Connecticut, School of Social Work, West Hartford, CT. March 24, 1995.

"A Queer History of Opera."

"What Was Lesbian Modernism?: History, Sexuality, and Cultural Archeology." Queer Theory Lecture Series, Wesleyan University, November 9, 1995.

Children from the Shadows: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered Youth at Risk. March 24, 1994.

"Firbank's Sapphic Saints." Division Panel on Late 19th-and Early 20th-Century Literature, MLA Convention, San Diego, December 28, 1994.

"The Nexus of Homosociality/Homosexuality in Contemporary Sappho Translation." Special Session: "Sappho's Afterlife in Translation." MLA Convention, Toronto, Thursday, December 30, 1993.

"The Return of the Repressed: Reading National Geographic with Elizabeth Bishop."

Respondent, Special Session: "Lesbians at the Opera." MLA Convention, New York, December 30, 1992.

"Veil or Mask?: Constructions of Race and Sexuality in Nella Larsen's Passing." MLA Convention, New York, December 30, 1992.

"Strange Fruits: Billie Holiday and Elizabeth Bishop Do the Blues." Fifth Annual Lesbian, Bisexual and Gay Studies Conference, Rutgers University, November 2, 1991.

"Blues Singers, Matriarchs, Bulldaggers and 'Lisbon' Women: Blues Form and Female Sexuality in Gayl Jones's Corregidora." Fourth Annual Lesbian, Bisexual and Gay Studies Conference, Harvard University, October 27, 1990.

RECENT GRANTS RECEIVED:

1996-97 Mellon Visiting Faculty Fellowship, Yale University

1995-96 Curriculum Development Grant, CSU

1993CSU Project Impact Faculty Participant

RESEARCH INTERESTS IN GENERAL:

American Literature, Gay and Lesbian Studies, Hebrew Bible

CURRENT/FUTURE SPECIFIC RESEARCH PROJECTS:

Sapphists, Suffragists, and Streetwalkers: Anti-Prostitution Discourse and the Emergence of Lesbian Identity in America. Under

Stories about Stories: Adventures in the Textual History of Biblical Narrative. In progress.

"Traumatic Space and the Institutionalized Racialization of 'Ordinary' Female Experience in Contemporary America: A Reading of Gayl Jones' Eva's Man." In progress.

"Melancholic Mothers: The 'Authentic' Black Mother as Commodity Fetish in Recent Black Female Texts." In progress.

In addition to the above works, I am currently pursuing research into the "post-colonialism" of American culture following the establishment of the New Nation; specifically the religiously grounded challenge to the Enlightenment politics of "civil reason" and private property posed by the radical wing of the early abolitionist movement. I am interested specifically in the violence directed against abolitionists, the active involvement of free blacks, women, and laborers in this crusade, and the significance of this movement within ongoing debates about the place of religion in the framework of the American Nation and post-colonial culture.

MASTER'S THESES ADVISEMENT:

In progress: Lane Brooks,

With Prof. Ilene Crawford.Jane Eyre and Lessing's The Golden Notebook.

Rachel Grubb, "Form, Narrative, and the Languages of Lesbianism in Monique Wittig's The Opoponax."

DISSERTATION TITLE:

The Inexplicable Presence of the Thing Not Named: Race and Lesbianism in Twentieth Century American Women's Literature.

INSTITUTION GRANTING Ph.D.:

University of California, Los Angeles