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Professor, Queens College Department of English, CUNY Graduate Center English Ph.D. Program
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Research & Teaching Interests

Critical university studies; literatures of resistance; seventeenth-century women writers; Shakespeare; African American literature, feminist theory.

Educational Background

Ph.D., Yale University, English
M.A., Yale University, English
B.A., Oberlin College, summa cum laude, Latin and English

Awards & Fellowships

Trade Union Leadership for Healthcare Justice Award, 2022
Karen Silkwood Award, 2021
Workers Defense League Award, 2013
John Commerford Labor Education Award, 2013
New York Communities for Change Justice Award, 2013
AAUP Marilyn Sternberg Award, 2008
Working Theater Award, 2006
The Mellon Minority Undergraduate Fellowship, Director, 1997-2001

Professional Service

President, The Professional Staff Congress/CUNY, 2000-2021