About
Interests
Professional
- Western North American literary and cultural studies
- Visual culture
- Art/photography
- American Indian literature
- Women writers and feminist criticism
- Environmental writing
- Autobiographical literary criticism
Personal
- Being outdoors and observing wildlife
- Reading outside
- Cross country skiing, hiking, and wandering
- Gardening
- Pets
- Cats
- Chickens
- My daughter’s wiener dog
- Western road trips
- Rivers, lakes, and Blue Hill Bay in Maine
- Playing games with my family, especially bridge
- Building things
- Decks
- Chicken coops
- Rock walls
- Paneled rooms
- tile floors
- Quilting and making things
- Yoga
- Weight lifting
- Working out
- Going to museums and exploring rural places
- TV: Deadwood, The Wire, The Shield, Justified, and many more, beginning with Barbara Stanwyck in The Big Valley in the 1960s.