Western Illinois University: Macomb Campus

My research interests vary, but some include feminist fiction and queer art as resistance, constructive intersections between identity and language, literary identity defiance, and queer theory and pedagogies that subvert the normative state of the classroom through social justice inclusion. I consider the theatrical and creative as pervasive forces in my academic work, and seek to stretch beyond the institutional norms and labels that define the academic genre. In accordance, I consider the classroom, and everything else, a stage in which intersections between philosophical, theoretical and practiced (especially kitschy and campy) acts are collaboratively produced. Integrated into my academic work are my personal endeavors: I co-operate Headmistress Press, perform theatrical -non-normative- gender acts, and am committed to and engaged in the "creative act" of writing with political consciousness. My daughters and their other mother are my favorite players and works of art.