My research and publications have focused on biography and autobiography with an emphasis on folklore and storytelling. In a book, I discuss horsewomen in the American West focusing on their use of humor in relationship to tourism. I have published articles on culture and cuisine, most recently for a foodways exhibition sponsored by the Smithsonian entitled “Key Ingredients,” now traveling across the United States. I write book and article reviews for journals and encyclopedia entries. From January to June 2008, my abstract landscapes, After a Garden, were on display in the Kuykendall Gallery at the university. Also in 2008, I taught English in Paris and researched at the Bibliotheque Nationale de France. In June 2008, I gave a presentation entitled “Prince Lot and G. P. Judd on the European Tour 1849-1850” at the International Auto/Biography Association meeting in Honolulu. As a rule, courses in composition as well as life writing, literature and folklore keep me busy.
Areas of Interest
folklore, oral narrative, American literature (1865-present), cultural studies in relationship to gender, culture and cuisine, humor and tourism
Awards
Best scholarly typography at the Book Jacket and Journal Show, the Association of American University Presses, 2007
Innovation in Teaching, American Library Association, 2001
Most Distinguished Dissertation, Department of English and Arts and Sciences, 1997
Education
BA, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
MA, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
PhD, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
Courses
Fall Semester 2013
Course
Title
Time
ENG 271(4)
Monsters in British Literature
MWF 11:30-12:20
ENG 271(6)
Monsters in British Literature
MWF 12:30-1:20
ENG 383(1)
Children's Lit
MWF 9:30-10:20
Spring Semester 2013
Course
Title
Time
ENG 100(34)
Composition I
TR 9:00-10:15
ENG 775(1)
Sem Cultural Studies (Ethnography of Food) (CSAP/LSE)
