Bard, A Place to Think - Master of Arts in Teaching

B.A., Brooklyn College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Maryland College Park. Specialization in 19th-century American literature and culture, with an emphasis on representations of adolescent schoolgirls and female education. Other areas of interest include domesticity, family, and gender; science, medicine and literature; newspapers/periodicals and archival research; museums as purveyors of knowledge and sites of informal learning. Taught literature and writing at UMCP; coordinated writing programs at UMCP and the University of Baltimore. As Program Coordinator at the Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies, and in collaboration with the Maryland State Department of Education, designed interdisciplinary professional development institutes for Maryland's public middle- and high school teachers. Contributor to American Culture, Canons, and the Case of Elizabeth Stoddard (2003). Author of Fictions of Female Education in the Nineteenth Century (Routledge 2009).