Professor Fox specializes in twentieth-century dramatic literature and disability studies. Her teaching interests include modern drama, disability in literature, feminist theater, contemporary American multicultural drama, performance theory, and women writers. Her scholarship has traced the rise of feminist sensibilities in American commercial theater; her articles on playwrights Rachel Crothers and Sophie Treadwell have been published in Text and Presentation, while her study of Dorothy Parker’s playwriting appears in the volume The Critical Waltz: Essays on the Work of Dorothy Parker. More recently, her work on disability and performance has been published in Contemporary Theatre Review, the National Women’s Studies Association Journal, and the book Gendering Disability.  She has served on the executive board of the Society for Disability Studies, and was an American Association of University Women American Postdoctoral Fellow for 2003-2004. Her current book project traces the representation of disability on the twentieth-century commercial stage. Dr. Fox is also the coordinator for the Gender Studies Concentration at Davidson College.

Courses recently taught:

• Modern Drama
• Introduction to Literature: Reading Violence
• Disability and Literature (300-level survey)
• Contemporary Drama
• Contemporary American Multicultural Drama
• Composition and Literature: Extraordinary Bodies (focuses on disability history, disability activism, and disability art)
• Seminar: Disability and Literature
• Seminar: Contemporary American Feminism and Theater
• Seminar: Early American Drama
• Women Writers