Interest 1 Research on forms of life writing with special emphasis on diaries, memoir, personal essays, etc.  My recent article, "Illegitimacy and Intercultural Lifewriting," published in a/b: Auto/biography Studies, is here.  Click on "Bibliography: Women's Autobiography" at left to read my recent bibliography on autobiography by American women.  Click on the icon "Whose Diary?" at left to read an essay entitled "Whose Diary is It, Anyway?"   To learn more about two recent projects focusing on adolescent diaries, click on "Adolescent Diaries."

Interest 2 Research on the history of Luxembourg and Germany and on immigration from these countries to the United States.  Special emphasis is placed on the culture of Luxembourg and its reflections in American-Luxembourgish settlements (e.g., St. Donatus, and Gilbertville, IA; Rollingstone, MN; Remsen, Alton, Granville, IA)   Click on "Home," and then on "Luxembourg" to read my essay, "Reflections of Luxembourg in the Rural Midwestern United States," based on a paper I presented at the Newberry Library's seminar on rural history in May 1998.

Interest 3 Research on the mythology, hagiography, and contemporary views of the Blessed Virgin Mary, with special emphasis on apparitions at such places as Rue du Bac in Paris; Banneux and Beauraing, Belgium; Marpingen, Germany; etc.  Click on the icon "Virgin Mary" at left to go to the page that deals with past and present discussions of possible Marian apparitions at Marpingen, Germany.