I have been teaching courses in literature at the college/university level for over two decades, beginning as a doctoral candidate at the University of Iowa, where I received my PhD. I have taught at a prestigious liberal arts college in Tennessee, two state institutions (Iowa and more recently at Arizona State University), and for seminar and summer arrangements at both Oxford and Cambridge as well as an all-female graduate school in Pakistan. I have worked for ACT in vetting prospective passages, questions and response options for future iterations of Reading Comprehension exams. At Arizona State, I achieved tenure, saw my monograph Memo