is Professor of English at Trinity College, Hartford, CT, USA. She has published essays in the journals American Imago, The Psychoanalytic Review, Feminist Studies, Theatre Topics, Theater Journal, Partial Answers, TLS, and European Journal of Women's Studies. She edited Seduction and Theory (University of Illinois, 1989), and The Makings of Dr. Charcot's Hysteria Shows (Mellen, 1998).