BOOKS PUBLISHED:
Editor. Women Times Three: Authors, Detectives, and Critics. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1996.
Editor. Great Women Mystery Writers: A Biocritical Dictionary. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1995 (Edgar Allen Poe and Agatha Christie Award nominee).
The Woman Detective: Gender and Genre. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1988. 260 pages (received 1988 Toth Award for excellence in feminism and popular culture; Japanese language version forthcoming).
CHAPTERS PUBLISHED IN BOOKS:
"Habeus Corpus: Feminism and Detective Fiction." In Feminism and the New Women's Detective Fiction, edited by Garwood Irons, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996.
"'That Silly Ass About Town.'" In First in a Series, edited by Mary Jean DeMarr, Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Press, 1996.
"Watching Warshawski." In It's A Print: Detective Fiction into Film, edited by William Reynolds and Elizabeth Trembley, Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1994.
"Preface." In Twentieth Century Crime and Mystery Writers, 3rd edition, London: St. James Press, 1991.
"Patricia Highsmith." In And Then There Were Nine: More Women of Mystery, edited by Jane S. Bakerman, Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1985.
"Common Sitting Rooms: Virginia Woolf's Critique of Women Writers." In Virginia Woolf: Centennial Essays, edited by Elaine Ginsberg and Laura Moss Gottleib, NY: Whitston Publishing Co., 1983.
"Dorothy L. Sayers." In Ten Women of Mystery, edited by Earl F. Bargainnier, Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green University Press, 1981.
Entries on Joan Flemming, Lucille Fletcher, Georgette Heyer, Lillian O'Donnell, Sara Paretsky, Margaret Scherf, Josephine Tey, and Patricia Wentworth. In Twentieth Century Crime and Mystery Writers, edited by John Reilly, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1980.
Entries on Susan Griffin, Ruth McKinney, Anne Nichols, Belle Spewak, and Megan Terry. In American Women Writers, 4 volumes, edited by Lina Mainiero, NY: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1979-1982.
JOURNAL ARTICLES PUBLISHED:
With Keller, Joseph. "Deductive Detective Fiction: The Function of Tacit Knowledge." Mosaic 23:2 (Spring 1990).
With Keller, Joseph. "Deductive Detective Fiction: The Self-Destructive Genre." Genre 19 (Summer 1986).
"Life After?: Memoirs of an Ex-Women's Studies Coordinator." Women's Studies International Forum 9:2 (June 1986).
Edited with Paula Hooper Mayhew, Ellen Silbert, and Judith Stitzel. "Women's Studies Administrators--Personal and Professional Intersections." Women's Studies International Forum (special issue) 9:2 (June 1986).
"Language and Meaning in Megan Terry's 1970's 'Musicals.'" Modern Drama (December 1984).
"Virginia Woolf and Women Writers: Knowing and Understanding." South Atlantic Quarterly 82:4 (Autumn 1983).
"Aging and Dying in the Novels of May Sarton." Critique 24:3 (Spring 1983).
"Feminists as Detectives: Harriet Vane, Kate Fansler, Sarah Chayse." The Armchair Detective 13:1 (Winter 1980).
BOOK REVIEWS PUBLISHED (total #): 8 book reviews and 2 theatre reviews
(feature latest 5):
Peggy Deery: An Irish Family at War, by Nell McCafferty, in Belle Lettre 5:3 (Spring 1990).
Larkspur, by Sheila Simonson, in The Drood Review (April 1990).
Reckless Abandon, by Sharon Singer Salinger, in The Drood Review (January 1990).
Murder Has a Pretty Face, by Jennie Melville, in The Drood Review (November 1989).
Fatal Reunion, by Claire McNab, in The Drood Review (October 1989).
CONFERENCE PAPERS ORALLY DELIVERED (last 12 years):
"Cross-Dressing, Identity Politics and Audience Anxiety." Popular Culture Association, New Orleans, 1993.
"Cross-Dressing and Audience Anxiety." NorthEast Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, 1993.
"(De)Constructing the Spectator." NorthEast Modern Language Association, Hartford, CT, 1991.
"How Much Reality: Feminism and Popular Culture." Fourth International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women, NY, 1990.
"W is for Woman." Popular Culture Association, Toronto, 1990.
"Feminism and Popular Culture." National Women's Studies Association, Towson, MD, 1989.
"Theatre and the Feminist Spectator." Conference on Feminism and Representation, Providence, RI, 1989.
"The Deviant Detective: Sex and Gender" (revised). Popular Culture Association, St. Louis, 1989.
"The Deviant Detective: Sex and Gender." NorthEast MLA, Wilmington, DE, 1989.
"An Unsuitable Job for a Feminist?" Popular Culture Association, Montreal, 1987.
"Re-visioning Popular Literature: Feminism and Detective Fiction." Third International Interdisciplinary Women Congress, Dublin, Ireland, 1987.
"Popular Fiction: Feminist Issues and Responses." Women's Festival: Politics, Literature, Culture--Imagining Alternatives, Dublin, Ireland, 1987.
"Universality: Examining the Criteria." Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, MI, 1986.
"In a Different Style: The Introduction of Female Hard-boiled Detectives." Popular Culture Association, Atlanta, 1986.
"Building a Feminist Community." National Women's Studies Association, Champaign-Urbana, IL, 1986.
With J. R. Keller. "The Deductive Detective Novel: A Self-Destructive Genre." Popular Culture Association, Louisville, 1985.
"The Female Detective in the American Dime Novel." Popular Culture Association, Louisville, 1985.
"Contemporary American Women Playwrights." Marymount College, Tarrytown, NY, 1985.
WORKSHOP LEADERSHIP:
"Developing a Women-Centered Course." Wesleyan College, Macon, GA, April 1985.
"Feminist Pedagogy: Theory and Praxis." Wesleyan College, August 1985.
RECENT GRANTS RECEIVED:
Faculty Research Grant, SCSU, "Feminism and the Theatre Spectator," 1990
Project Development Proposal Fund, IUI, editing a special issue of Women's Studies International Forum, 1985
President's Council on the Humanities, IU, editing a special issue of Women's Studies International Forum, 1985
Project Development Proposal Fund, IUI, "Needs Survey of Returning Women Students," 1981-1984
CURRENT/FUTURE SPECIFIC RESEARCH PROJECTS:
"Murder in New England." In Regional Crime and Mystery Fiction, edited by Don Wall, Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Press (forthcoming).
"Megan Terry." In Women in the American Theatre: A Biographical Dictionary, edited by Ellen Dowling and Janet Horne, Washington, DC: University Publications of America, Inc. (forthcoming).
DISSERTATION TITLE:
Humanity Denied: Samuel Beckett's Dramatic Structure
INSTITUTION GRANTING PH.D.:
Purdue University