Dr. Colletta teaches Arts and Humanities foundation courses in addition to intermediate and advanced literature courses. She was Associate Editor of Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, and her interests include the twentieth-century British novel, humor studies, gender/women's studies, transnational literatures, and literary history, especially as it relates to ideas of modernity, narrative, and aesthetic response. She is the author of Dark Humor and Social Satire in the Modern British Novel (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), editor of Kathleen and Christopher: Christopher Isherwood's Letters to his Mother (Univerisity of Minnesota Press, 2005), and co-editor of Wild Colonial Girl: Essays on Edna O'Brien (University of Wisconsin Press, forthcoming 2006). Her work has appeared in numerous journals and essay collections, and she is currently writing a book on the life and work of British novelists in Hollywood.

Areas of expertise include Modern British literature, gender/women's studies, transnational literatures, literary and intellectual history.