Writer-in-Residence at Rivier University in Nashua, New Hampshire. A professor emerita of English, she was president of Rivier University from 1997-2001. She earned my PhD from Harvard University in Comparative Literature (1990) and she is a fellow of the American Council on Education. She has published essays and poetry in journals, in edited collections and dictionaries, and has also published a biography of the founder of Rivier University, Crucible and Charism (Hollis Publishing, 2009). I have presented widely on the poetry of Peter Abelard and biblical literature. In 2016, she presented on factory farming at the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. That paper was published in Ethical Vegetarianism and Veganism (Routledge, 2019). Her current research interests include animal ethics, animal rights, speciesism, and the theology and spirituality of the human-animal bond.