Professor of English at Fordham; Director of the Honors Program at Fordham College Rose Hill; President of the University Faculty Senate. Author, Generating Bodies and Gendered Selves (2007); co-author, Two Rings (translated into 7 languages) (2012); co-editor, Women, Sex, and Gender in the Early British Colonial World (2018). Past president of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts. BA, MA, PhD, Columbia University.