Franklin & Marshall College

Creative Writing

Poetry

• "Posthumous," Cimarron Review, Fall 2008. 
• "High Tea at Thomas Hardy's House," "Talking Board" (rpt), Southampton Review, 1:1 (Summer / Autumn 2007): 1-3.
• “Fall Back.” Cortland Review,  December 2006.
• “Talking Board.” Alehouse Poetry Review, Fall 2006. Runner up in APR poetry contest. http://www.alehousepress.com/
• “Winter Laundry” Harpur Palate, Summer 2006.
• “Ontology (at the Mütter Museum, College of Physicians, Philadelphia).”  Southwest Review, Summer 2006.

Nonfiction

• "Long Story, Three Days, or thirty-four and a half hours with Me and Robert McKee," Barrelhouse Magazine, 5 (2008): 141-51.
• "True Confessions," Sports Literature [online], Winter 2007.
• "Catechresis,"Brevity, issue 23.
• “Some Questions to Consider.”  In Illness in the Academy, Purdue UP, 2006. Ed. Kimberly Myers.
• "Stories from the Other Side of Silence,”  Bellevue Literary Review, Spring 2005.
• "Outfield," Central PA Magazine, August 2004. Personal essay.
• "Comprehending Tyler," Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine. Online.
• Interview with Rebecca McClanahan, Fourth Genre, Spring 2004.
• "Night Lines." Sycamore Review, 15, Winter/Spring 2003.
• “Charity Means You Don't Pick and Choose." Newsweek, December 23, 2002: 12.  Op-ed.
• "Her Records." Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, December 2003.
• “A Moment's Thought." Central PA Magazine, August 2002.
• “Voices from the Past." Antiques and Collecting, August 2002.
• "Classroom Divided." The World and I, September 2002.
• "Her Records." Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, December 2003.

Script: 

• Adaptation of "Far from the Madding Crowd," optioned (2008) by Tempesta Films, producer, Donna Gigliotti. 

Fiction

• “Nails.”   ducts.org  Winter 2006. http://ducts.org/12_06/html/fiction/ohara.html

Readings

• KGB Bar, New York, NY. November 11, 2006.
• Philadelphia Alumni Writers House, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA. October 2004.

Selected Scholarly Publications

"Knowing Hodge: Representing the Rural Labourer in the Late-Victorian Periodical Press." In Victorian Encounters, Palgrave, 2005. Eds. Julie Codell and Laurel Brake, pp. 103-116.

"'The Woman of To-Day': The Fin de Siècle Women of The Music Hall and Theatre Review." Victorian Periodicals Review 30 (1997):141-52. Victorian Studies, 38:1 (1994): 127-129.

"Narrating the Native: Victorian Anthropology and Hardy's The Return of the Native. Nineteenth-Century Contexts. 20 (1997): 147-63.

"'The Willow Pattern That We Knew': The Victorian Literature of Blue Willow." Victorian Studies 36 (1993): 421-442.

"Primitive Marriage, Civilized Marriage: Mythology, Anthropology and The Egoist," Victorian Literature and Culture, 20 (1993): 1-24.  

Awards

• Travel Grant [to London]. English Speaking Union. Summer 2001.
• National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend. Summer 2000.
• Lindback Award for Excellence in Teaching. Spring 2000.
• 1998 Phoenix Award for Significant Editorial Achievement, Council of Editors of Learned Journals