Specialization: 19^th- & 20th-century American literature.

Interests: American literature, historical fiction, Modernism/Postmodernism, literary theory, the socio-political work of literature, saving the reputation of James Fenimore Cooper.

Dissertation: Rewriting the American Myth: Post-1960s American Historical Frontier Romances.

Recent Publications:

"'Hardly the voice of the same man': Civil Disobedience and Thoreau's Response to John Brown."The MidwestQuarterly (Forthcoming, Winter 2007), 18 pp.

"'A world away from his people': The Heartsong of Charging Elk and the Indian Historical Novel." SAIL: Studies in American Indian Literatures. (Forthcoming in issue 18.2, Spring 2006), 29 pp.

"'Of this I can make no sense': Wulf and Eadwacer and the destabilization of meaning."Medieval Forum. Volume 4. http://www.sfsu.edu/~medieval/Volume4/Donahue.html (posted 12/01/2004 )

"In the Midst of an Infernal Crowd: Dante and the Original Text(s)." Translation Review 58 (1999): 31-44.

Major Advisor: Robert Tilton