Her most resent books include Augusta Played (LSU, 1998), Death and Transfiguration (LSU, 1997), and Writing the World, (University of Missouri, 1995) a collection of essays and criticisms. She is Eudora Welty Professor of English and Evjue-Bascom Professor in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Her translation of Sophocles' Antigone will be published later this fall. She lives with the Fiction writer Burke Davis III in Madison, Wisconsin.