Assistant Professor

Education:

• BA - Emory U (1986)
• PhD - Stanford U (1994)

Curriculum vitae (.pdf)

Dr. Mays specializes in 19th Century British Literature. Before joining the UNLV faculty in 2001, she served as a Preceptor in the Harvard University Expository Writing Program (1994-6) and as Assistant Professor of English at New Mexico State University (1996-2001). A co-author of The Norton Introduction to Literature (8th edition, 2001) and The Norton Introduction to Poetry (8th edition, 2002), she has also published several articles on nineteenth-century British publishing and reading practices and on working-class poetry and autobiography. Her latest, “Domestic Spaces, Readerly Acts: Reading(,) Gender and Class in Working-Class Autobiography,” will appear soon in Nineteenth Century Contexts.