Publications

"Robert Hayden's Detroit Blues Elegies."  Callaloo  (forthcoming).

"The Role of Dickinson's Biography in the Classroom."  Approaches to Teaching Emily Dickinson.  Eds.  Robin Riley Fast and Christine  Mack Gordon.  New York:  MLA, 1989.  134-141.

"Emily Dickinson's Voice of Endings."  ESQ:  A Journal of the American Renaissance. 31 (1985):  23-37.

"Higginson the Entomologist."  The New England Quarterly   56 (1983): 577-582.

"Emily Dickinson and the Erotic" (with Seymour L. Gross).  Dickinson Studies 37 (1980):  25-28.

Research Interests

Nineteenth and Twentieth Century American Poetry
Detroit Writers