Publications include studies of William Faulkner, Erskine Caldwell, and Cormac McCarthy.
Current research focuses on constructs of spirituality in twentieth-century American women s texts.
Medieval English Literature, Chaucer, History of the Language, American English. Southern Literature, folklore and culture, the female bildungsroman . Renaissance Studies, current research focuses on representations of women and crime, domestic violence and motherhood in the early modern period.