Dana Heller received her Ph.D. from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in 1989. She joined the ODU English Department faculty in 1990 where she teaches American literature, literature theory, and gender studies. In addition to numerous articles, she is the author of The Feminization of Quest Romance: Radical Departures (Austin: University of Texas, 1990) and Family Plots The De-oedipalization of Popular Culture (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1995). She has also edited a collection of essays, Cross Purposes: Lesbian Studies, Feminist Studies, and the Limits of Alliance (Bloomington: Indiana University, Forthcoming, 1996.) [extracted from 1995 brochure]