My research interests center on the intersections between literature, film, and history, and how texts represent, re-create, and newly establish historical perception and myth.  I am also interested in how these media inform public history and interact with public history.  My preferred historical areas of inquiry are the 18th century and early 20th century.  I also interested in the representation and historical "faces" of women; my thesis explores the recreated film and literary roles of settler women as cultural conveyors in the early American frontier.