As an educator and faculty developer, I am deeply committed to fostering creativity in all its forms. But I am also a writer and storyteller who has not lost sight of my humanities training.

As part of my commitment to walking the walk and modeling for my students the very skills and genres I assign them, I write often about the arts and the stories we tell about creative women. My humanities scholarship and criticism not only inform but are inspired by the topics and content I teach.

Explore my Writing About the Arts and Book & Film Reviews pages, and you will see how this work is in dialogue with the courses I design, including:

Woman, Image, Myth: The Mediated Afterlives of Marilyn Monroe

Joan Didion & the Art of Nonfiction

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Hollywood & the Novel)

Sites of Creativity in the 21st-Century American Novel

Woman as Art(ist)

In short, writing about the arts is integral not only to how I approach teaching in the humanities but also to my own creative fulfillment.