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Education

University of Delaware (PhD and MA)

Wesleyan University (BA)

Recent Conference Presentations

●"Men's Studies is from Mars, Women's Studies is from Venus, But Not If We Can Help It: Bridging the Gap in the Intro. Course," Popular Culture

     Association/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA), Boston, Mar. 2007. Co-Presenter with Dr. Andy Manno.

●"From The Joy Luck Club to Better Luck Tomorrow: Negotiating the Construction

     of Asian Americans as the Model Minority," Popular Culture

     Association/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA), Atlanta, Apr. 2006.

●"'The Others Are Coming': Navigating Race in TV's Lost," Society for the Study of

     Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States (MELUS), Boca Raton, Florida, Apr.

     2006.

●"Whiteness Haunted: Joyce Carol Oates' Bellefleur and Critical Race Theory,"

     Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA), Philadelphia, Mar. 2006.

●"Critical Race Theorists as Storytellers: Why Aren't We Listening?," Community

     College Humanities Association, Boston, Nov. 2005.

●"Remaking The Stepford Wives in the Age of The Swan: Beauty, Women, and

     Power," Women & Society, Marist College, Sept. 2005.

●"Dancing in the Dark: Reading Race in Contemporary Dance Films," MELUS,

     Chicago, Apr. 2005.