— Scholarly Publications —

 “Subversive Seeing and Sisterhood in Celine Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire, 2019.” In Female Friendships Literary and Artistic Explorations, edited by Slav

Gratchev, et al. MD: Lexington Books: An Imprint of the Rowen and Littlefield Publishing Group, forthcoming, 2022.

 “BBCAmerica’s Killing Eve and The Necessity of the Female Villain duJour.” In Antiheroines of Contemporary Literary Media: Saints, Sinners, and Survivors, edited

by Gretche Busl, Melanie Haas, Nikka Pierce Lanham, 119-32. MD: Lexington Books: An Imprint of Rowen and Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., 2020.

 “Feminism-Reboot in Mad Max: Fury Road and The Handmaid’s Tale.” In Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Trump: Images in Literature and Visual Arts, edited by

Barbara Brodman and James Doan, 113-32.  NY: Farleigh Dickinson University Press with Rowan and Littlefield, 2019.

 “Feminism.” Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. NY: Springer (Summer, 2018).

 “The ‘I’ and the ‘Eye’: Mediated Perspective in the Documemoir.” In Mediating Memory:Tracing the Limits of Memoir, edited by Bunty Avieson, Fiona Giles and Sue

Joseph, 123-39. NY: Routledge, 2018.

 “Hollywood’s Warrior Woman in the New Millennium.” In Bad Girls and Transgressive Women in Contemporary Television, Fiction, and Film, edited by Julie A.

Chappel and Mallory   Young, 33-61. NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. 

 “Sara Polley’s Stories We Tell: The Refracted Subject.” Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly. 38. No. 4 (Fall 2016): 543-55.

 “The L Word.” Encyclopedia of Women in American Popular Culture. Facts on File. 2012.

“Thelma and Louise.” Encyclopedia of Women in American Popular Culture. Facts on File.  2012.

 “Stories and Self-Reflection.” Quadrivium: A Journal of Multidisciplinary Scholarship. Nova Southeastern University, 23, no. 1 (Spring, 2009).

  https://nsuworks.nova.edu/quadrivium/vol1/iss1/  

 “Babes in Boots: Hollywood’s Oxymoronic Warrior Woman.” In Chick Flicks: Contemporary Women at the Movies, edited by Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young,

204-20. NY: Routledge, 2007.

Particular Friendships: A Convent Memoir. PA: Xlibris, 2006. 

“Herbert Ross’ Boys on the Side Puts HIV/AIDS and Women in Their Place.” The Journal of Popular Culture. 39, no. 3 (June 2006): 479-92.

 “Memoir.” An Encyclopedia of Women’s Autobiography. CT: Greenfield Press, 2005.

 “Graeme Clifford’s Biopic, Frances (1982): Once a Failed Lady, Twice Indicted” Literature/Film Quarterly. 33:1 (2005): 12-19. 

 “Framing the Framed Self: A Reading of Victor Nunez’s Ruby in Paradise”: Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly. 24:2 (Spring, 2001): 425-41.

“Unclothing Gender: The Postmodern Sensibility in Sally Potter’s Orlando” (co-authored with Suzanne Ferriss): Literature/Film Quarterly. 27:2 (1999)”: 110-15).

 “Anne Sexton.” Women in World History. CT: Yorkin Publications, 2000.

 “Zora Neale Hurston.” Women in World History. CT: Yorkin Publications, 1999.

 "Toni Morrison."  Women in World History. CT: Yorkin Publications, 2000.

 "Virginia Woolf." Women in World History. CT: Yorkin Publications, 2000.

 "Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte" (Co-authored with Suzanne Ferriss). Women in World History. CT: Yorkin Publications, 1999.

 "Mary Shelley."  (Co-authored with Suzanne Ferriss). Women in World History. CT: Yorkin Publications, 2000.

 "Lillian Hellman." Women in World History. CT: Yorkin Publications, 1999.

 "Lillian Hellman's Maybe: Autobiographical Revisioning.” CEA Critic. 55.1 (Fall 1992): 39-46.