Academic Articles

These articles reflect my recent thoughts about memoir and fiction, feminism and teaching.

“Is this Recovery?”: Chronicity and Closure in Graphic Illness Memoir
Biography, Volume 44, Numbers 2&3, 2021, pp. 53-70 (Article)
Published by University of Hawai’i Press

Mentoring the Mentor
(Avidly) Los Angeles Review of Books, January 7, 2020

When Your Friend is Also a Mentor: The Mentrix Identity
Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Fall 2019, Vol. 38, No. 2

Goodbye to All That
College Literature, Volume 46, Number 1, Winter 2019 (available here)

A Backward Glance (pdf)
a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, Spring 2017

Elegiac Friendship: Notes on Loss (pdf)
Feminist Studies. Special Issue: Women’s Friendships, 2016

Getting Transpersonal: The Cost of an Academic Life
Prose Studies, 2009 (available here)

Starting Out in the Fifties: Grace Paley, Philip Roth, and the Making of a Literary Career
Contemporary Women’s Writing, 2009 (available here)

A Memoir of Feminism: An Interview with Nancy K. Miller
With Jeffrey Williams, Minnesota Review, 2007 (available here)

Out of the Family: Generations of Women in Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis
Life Writing, 2007 (available here)