Areas of Specialty:

• Essay and Creative Nonfiction
• Literacy Studies
• History of U.S. Composition and Rhetoric
• Instructional Technology
• Editing and Publishing

Essays and Creative Nonfiction:

• Heritage 101 or the Obligation to Write, Forthcoming in Revelations, Lies, Loves, and Loss; eds. Charles Schuster and Sondra Perl.
• Composition, or a Case for Experimental Critical Writing.  In Labor, Writing Technologies, and the Shaping of Composition in the Academy, eds. Pamela Takayoshi and Patricia Sullivan, 2007.
• Sentimental Attachments:  Essays, Creative Nonfiction, and Other Experiments in Composition.  Heinemann, 2005.
• Modern Fidelity. Fourth Genre 3.2 (2001): 55-69.
• Children at All Costs. Literal Latte 4.5 (1998) [Roy T. Ames Memorial Essay Award (2nd), Judge: Phillip Lopate], 8-12.
• The Technology of Voice.  College Composition and Communication 1997.

Rhetorical History and Literacy Studies

• Imagining Rhetoric: Composing Women of the Early United States (with Peter Mortensen). University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002.
• Figuring Culture and Literacy in Cather's 'Paul's Case.'" Journal of Narrative and Life History 3.2-3 (1993): 299-318.
• Reading Literacy Narratives (with Peter Mortensen).  College English 1992.
• Narratives of Socialization: Literacy in the Short Story.  College English 1991.

Current Projects:

Literate Zeal: Editing, Gender, and the Making of a New Yorker Ethos

Literacy and Intangible Heritage in Azorean-American Communities