Though I have lived in several Southern states and in Maine, I am a native Memphian who loves her city and its people with the same enthusiasm with which I love my four cats. Almost equal to my love of cats is my love of birds.

In my nearly twenty years at CBU, I have taken great pleasure in teaching international students, especially those from India. From the familiar to the exotic, these Indian students have included Roman Catholics, Hindus, Jains, and Zoroastrians.

In addition to freshman composition and sophomore literature courses, I teach Eighteenth-Century British Literature, Eighteenth-Century British Novels, and, more recently, Seventeenth-Century British Poetry. I have also taught courses in Honors World Literature, C. S. Lewis, and E. M. Forster and Film.

I earned my B.A. and M.A. in English from the University of Memphis and my Ph.D. from the University of Mississippi. Though my dissertation was on an eighteenth-century novel, my interest now has shifted to the stories of people who sometimes exist on the fringes of society, people who too often go unnoticed, despite their accomplishments and their contributions to our world. In 2000, McFarland published my book, Voices of Vietnamese Boat People, and, more recently, the Philological Review published “Other People’s Houses,” an article on Memphis domestic workers.