A Desire for Women: Relational Psychoanalysis, Writing, and Relationships Between Women. Rutgers University Press, 2003
Reading from the Heart: Women Readers, Women Writers, and the Search for True Love.
Viking Penguin, 1994; Penguin, 1995
With Camille Roman and Cristanne Miller, The Language and Women Debate: A Sourcebook. Rutgers University Press, 1993; re-issued as an eBook by netLibrary, 1999
With Cristanne Miller and Martha Nell Smith, Comic Power in Emily Dickinson: A Study of Performance and Audience. University of Texas Press, 1993
Editor, with Cristanne Miller. Emily Dickinson: A Celebration for Readers. Gordon & Breach, 1989. Published simultaneously as a special issue of Women’s Studies, Vol. 16, Nos. 1-2 (1989)
The Undiscovered Continent: Emily Dickinson and the Space of the Mind. Indiana University Press, 1983
Editor, Feminist Critics Read Emily Dickinson. Indiana University Press, 1983
Naked and Fiery Forms: Modern American Poetry by Women, A New Tradition. Octagon Books, 1976; Harper and Row, 1976
Metaphor and the Poetry of Williams, Pound, and Stevens. Bucknell University Press
Selected Recent Essays
“The Queer Poetics of May Swenson.” New Perspectives on May Swenson. Utah State University Press, 2006
“The Amplitude of Queer Desire in Dickinson’s Erotic Language.” The Emily Dickinson Journal. Vol 14, No. 2 (2005)
“The Prince Is Wearing a Tutu: Queer Identity and Identificatory Reading in Jane Hamilton’s The Short History of a Prince. American Imago, Vol. 61, No. 2 (Summer 2004), 134-165
”Mother Writing and the Narrative of Maternal Subjectivity. Studies in Gender and Sexuality, Vol. 4, No. 4 (2003), 395-425
“Taking Class: Memoirs of a Classroom Ballerina.” Dance Chronicle: Studies in Dance and the Related Arts. Vol. 26, No. 3 (2003), 333-346
With Cristanne Miller, “Performances of Gender in Dickinson’s Poetry.” The Cambridge Companion to Emily Dickinson, ed. Wendy Martin. Cambridge University Press, 2002, 107-128
“Towards Recognition: Writing and the Mother-Daughter Relationship,” American Imago, Vol. 57, No. 2 (Summer 2000), 157-184
“The Irresistible Lure of Repetition and Dickinson’s Poetry of Analogy,” The Emily Dickinson Journal, Special Conference Issue: Emily Dickinson at Home, Vol. IX, No. 2 (2000), 23-31
“Emily Dickinson,” in Steven R. Serafin, ed., Encyclopedia of American Literature. Continuum, 1999, 269-272.
“Reading Austen Writing Emma,” Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal On-Line, Vol. 21, No. 1 (1999).
“New Directions in Dickinson Scholarship: Materiality and the Poet,” in Gudrun Grabher, Cristanne Miller and Roland Hagenbüchle, eds., The Emily Dickinson Handbook. University of Massachusetts Press, 1998, pp. 427-439
“Metaphor”; “Poetry, as Subject”; “‘After great pain, a formal feeling comes–‘”; “The Emily Dickinson Journal”; in Jane Donahue Eberwein, ed., An Emily Dickinson Encyclopedia. Greenwood Press, 1998, pp. 195-197, 230-231, 2-3, 103-104
“Lesbian Romance Fiction and the Plotting of Desire: Narrative Theory, Lesbian Identity, and Reading Practice,” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Vol. 17, No. 1 (Spring 1998), 65-82
With Cristanne Miller, “Comic Power: A Performance,” The Emily Dickinson Journal. Special Conference Issue, Vol. V, No. 2 (Fall 1996), 84-91
“Adventuring in the World of the Symbolic: Emily Dickinson and Metaphor,” in Cristanne Miller and Lynn Keller, eds., Feminist Measures: Soundings in Poetry and Theory, University of Michigan Press, 1994, 139-162
Editorial Positions
Founding editor, The Emily Dickinson Journal
Selected Honors & Awards
Women’s Studies Senior Scholar, CU Boulder, 2003-2007
Faculty Fellowships, CU Boulder, 1987-1988, 2001-2002
Boulder Faculty Assembly Award for Excellence in Research, 2000
Flora Stone Mather Visiting Distinguished Visiting Professor Case Western Reserve University, Fall 1998
American Association of Women Founders Distinguished Senior Scholar Award, 1998
Dorothy Martin First Annual Woman Faculty Award, CU Boulder, 1998
Martha Hoag Clifford Postdoctoral Fellowship, American Association of University Women, 1981-1982
