Welcome! As Professor of Women's Studies at San Diego State University (where I joined the faculty in 2001), I teach courses concerning women writers, feminist theory, gender and representation, and women and the environment. I am presently serving as chair of the Department. My earliest work probed the Irish literary contexts of James Joyce, including the feminism of his day. I remain interested in problems of gender and colonial marginality in Ireland, and in comparisons of post-colonial conditions of creativity worldwide. My writing in the last decade has been devoted to the feminist re-vision of literary modernism. This finds recent expression in the collaborative critical anthology, Gender in Modernism: New Geographies, Complex Intersections (University of Illinois Press, 2007), which serves as a sequel to my first project of this sort, The Gender of Modernism (1990). Lately I have been pursuing a lifelong interest in the environment, which includes work a study of Virginia Woolf's uses of nature. This, I hope, will contribute to the greening of modernism, and indeed of our way of life.