Our Faculty & Staff

Department:

Research, Professional and Creative Activity:

• Published Keeping Buffy in the Classroom– Well, At Least It Isn’t High School. Buffy Meets the Academy: Essays on the Episodes and Scripts as Texts. McFarland
• Published Women in Leadership Roles in Popular Culture – “It’s All About Power”– from The PowerPuff Girls to Buffy and the Vampire Slayer. Oxford Roundtable on Women and Leadership. Oxford, England
• Presented a number of papers for the International Conference of the Fantastic in the Arts and the Popular Culture Conference on topics such as classroom response to feminist utopias; female heroes; the works of Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly, Dollhouse)
• Numerous publications and presentations on popular culture and Joss Whedon topics
• Studied at the Shakespeare Folger Library in Washington, D.C.

Professional Profile:

Professor Wilson received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, her M.A. in English Literature from San Jose State University and her B A. in English from Indiana University. She has a special interest in both medieval and Renaissance literature, and her contemporary interests include popular culture, feminism and fantasy.

Teaching and Related Service:

Former Department Chair, 2009

Courses taught:

• English Literature
• American Literature
• Literary Criticism
• Western Literature
• Literature and Women
• The British Novel
• Shakespeare
• Selected Topics in Folklore and Literature
• Composition

Previously taught at:

• University of North Florida
• University of Louisiana at Lafayette