I hail from both the Midwest and the East Coast (with a short stint in Berkeley, California)--varied geographies that reflect my inclusive cast of mind and the interdisciplinarity of my scholarship.   Psychology, medicine, gender, class, and the plastic arts figure in my teaching and writing about literature, and my doctoral work considers the relationship between affect and emotion and modern narrative.  I pay particular attention to the internal monologues and controlled stream-of-consciousness technique of Virginia Woolf, which showcase her pioneering use of depressive discourse, a term borrowed from psycholinguistics, in high modernist fiction.  I continue to write on the emergent influence of depressive mood and modernism, and, contrary to what some might believe, scholars of depression and literature are largely a happy and enthusiastic bunch.  As well as writing about Woolf�s work, I love to teach it and other nineteenth- and twentieth-century British texts, modern American poetry, Russian literature, and contemporary short fiction.