Ph.D. Columbia University

On Leave Spring 2006

 Research: 19th and 20th Century French and Comparative Literature, Gender Studies, Queer Theory, Cultural Studies.

Work in Progress:
Dirt for Art's Sake: Literature, Sex and Obscenity, 1857-1966 (forthcoming, Cornell University Press).

 Representative Publications: "Gilberte's Indecent Gesture" (forthcoming); "Approaching the Unapproachable: Nabokov Teaches Proust" (forthcoming); "Lovely Lesbians; or, Pussy Galore" (2001); Edited special "Men and Lesbianism" issue, GLQ (July 2001); Proust's Lesbianism (1999); "Colette aux USA" (1997).

 Teaching Interests: 19th and 20th Century French Literature; Comparative Literature; Gender Studies; Queer Theory; Literary Theory; Cultural Studies; Film.

 Recent Courses Taught:

• 20th Century French Novel: Love, Sex, and Gender in French Culture
• Contemporary French Literature
• Fiction and Autobiography (Comparative Literature)
• Literature and Sexuality (Comparative Literature)