As an independent scholar specializing in gender and the history, theory, and criticism of crime literature, I have given papers at academic and mystery conferences, such as the National Women's Studies Association, the New York College English Association, and Bouchercon, the World's Mystery Convention.

Publications

Reconfiguring Detective Fiction: A New Paradigm of Development. (Dissertation) Ann Arbor, Michigan: University Microfilms International, 2000.

"The Female Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: Alternative Sleuths, Alternative Heroes," in Sherlock Holmes: Victorian Sleuth to Modern Hero, eds. Charles R. Putney, Joseph A. Cutshall King, and Sally Sugarman (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1996).

Papers/Presentations

Deadly Ink Conference, June 23-24, 2006, Parsippany, NJ.
Themed Mysteries, panel moderator, with Jane Cleland, Ann Waldron, Donna Andrews, Gail Farrelly, Joyce and Jim Lavene, Con Lehane.

Ask the Authors, panel participant, with Chris Grabenstein(moderator), Con Lehane, Cheryl Solimini, John Reisinger , Elena Santangelo, Gayle Wigglesworth, Selma Eichler, Bruce Makous, Carole Shmurak, Carol Higgins Clark, Ellen Higgins, Nora Charles, John Lamb, Sandra Cody, Bonnie Feldstein (Anna Gill).

“Having Her Say, Having Her Way: Blanche White, Justice, and Reparations,” at Resistance to Tyranny: Representing the Struggle for Human Rights in Literature, New York College English Association spring conference, 29 April 2006, Marymount College of Fordham University, Tarrytown, New York.

“Jane Langton’s Dark Nantucket Noon: Charting the Nature of Detection,” at Cartographies, New York College English Association spring conference,16 April 2005, Siena College in Loudonville, New York.

"Through a Magnifying Glass Darkly: Perception and Detective Fiction," at The Doors of Perception: Vision, Imagination, Perception In/To Literature, New York College English Association spring conference, 17 April 2004, University at Albany in Albany, New York.

“Early Women Mystery Writers and their Detectives," for panel Women & Crime Through Time, presenter and panel organizer, Bouchercon Mystery Convention, 18 October 2003.

“Taking the Law Into Their Own Hands: Representations of Female Justice in Three Texts,” New York College English Association Conference, 30 September 2000.

“A Stitch in Crime: Needlework as the Instrument of Oppression and Agency,” (crime literature of Aphra Behn and Susan Glaspell), National Women’s Studies Association Conference, 17 June 2000.

"Academic Attitudes to Detective Fiction," panel at Bouchercon Mystery Convention, 30 October 1997.

"The Female Rivals of Sherlock Holmes," for Conference "Sherlock Holmes: Victorian Sleuth to Modern Hero," Bennington College, 24 June 1994.

"When It Comes to Women and Detective Fiction, We're All Still Suspect," New York Women's Studies Association Conference, 27 March 1993.