Teaching interests: Medieval literature, Shakespeare, Shakespeare and Film, Renaissance literature, Gender theory, drama

Research interests: Renaissance historiography, medieval images of women, including "loathly ladies," medieval ballads, Renaissance masques, emblems, and art, soliloquy and early modern constrcutions of the self, medieval and Renaissance mysticism, martyrdom, and mutilation

Brief biography: I earned my BA from USC, my MA and PhD from UCLA in 1980. From 1980-1987 I taught at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN, and from 1987-2001 at Kalamazoo College in Michigan before coming to CSUF in fall 2001.