American Literature
 British Literature
 Youth Literature

Doctorate:
York University (2003)
Masters:
York University (1993)

Books

Between the Angle and the Curve: Mapping Gender, Race, Space, and Identity in Cather and Morrison. New York: Routledge, 2006. Republished in paperback edition in 2009

Journal Articles

“Self-deprecatory Humor and the Female Comic: Self-Destruction or Comedic Construction?” thirdspace 2/1 (November 2002): 43 pars. http://www.thirdspace.ca/articles/druss.htm 

Book Chapters

“‘A New Bend in the Road’: Navigating Nationhood through L. M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables.” The Nation in Children’s Literature: Nations of Childhood. Eds. Kit Kelen and Bjorn Sundmark. New York: Routledge, 2012. 11-22. “Unmasking M(other)hood: Third-Wave Mothering in Gaiman’s Coraline and MirrorMask” . Feminism in the Worlds of Neil Gaiman: Essays on the Comics, Poetry, and Prose. Eds. Tara Prescott and Aaron Drucker. New York: McFarland Press, 2012. 161-176. “Immeasurable Yearnings: The Legacy of the Landscape in Cather’s The Song of the Lark.” Dialogue Literary Studies Series: Willa Cather’s The Song of the Lark. Ed. Debra Cumberland. Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi Press, 2010. 67-90. “Familiarity Breeds a Following: Transcending the Formulaic in the Snicket Series.” Telling Children’s Stories: Narrative Theory and Children’s Literature. Ed. Michael Cadden. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 2010. 22-43. “Homeward Bound: Transformative Spaces in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple.” Dialogue Literary Studies Series: Alice Walker’s The Color Purple. Eds. Delroy Constantine-Simms and Kheven LaGrone. Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi Press, 2009. 195-207. “Revisiting the Attic: the Critical Legacy of The Madwoman in the Attic.” The Madwoman in the Attic After Thirty Years. Ed. Annette R. Federico. University of Missouri Press, 2009.127-148.   

Other Publications

"Review of Feminist (Re)visions of the Subject: Landscapes, Ethnoscapes, and Theoryscapes.” Canadian Woman Studies 24 (2005): 204-5.