Dr. Ferguson teaches in the English and Women's Studies programs. Her primary research interest is contemporary Irish literature. Additional research and teaching interests include: women's literature and activism, World literature, modern British literature, the novel, and Post-colonial theory. Her latest article, "The Subversion of Supernatural Lament in the Poetry of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill" will be published in an upcoming issue of Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Some of Dr. Ferguson's recent courses at Lindsey Wilson are Literary Cultures: Irish Drama, Global Literature, World Literature, Literary Interpretation, and Women in Global Perspective.