Education
  • Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
  • M.A., Stanford University
  • B.A., California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo  

 

Refereed Journal Publications       

    
·      ”Chopin's  The Awakening.” The Explicator, Summer 2006.

·        “Anybody Raised Down Home—Down South: Brother to Dragons and Warren’s Southern Ethnography.”  Mississippi Quarterly, Spring 2005.

·        “Weapons of Mass Instruction: Terrorism, Propaganda Film, Politics, and Us.”  2005 Film and History CD-ROM Annual (originally published in Studies in Popular Culture, Spring 2005).

·        “Weapons of Mass Instruction: Terrorism, Propaganda Film, Politics, and Us.” Studies in Popular Culture, Spring 2005.

·        “Robert Frost’s ‘West-Running Brook.’” The Explicator. Fall 2004.

 

 Essays in Edited Collections  

·        “It Can Be Done: Getting a Tenure-Track Job as an ABD in the Humanities.”  In Job Search in Academe: The Insightful Guide for Faculty Job Candidates (Stylus Press, Forthcoming Spring 2007)

 

Encyclopedia Entries and Book Reviews

  • Review of Andrew Myers' Black, White & Olive Drab: Racial Integration at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, and the Civil Rights Movement. Forthcoming in Studies in American Culture. Fall 2007. 
  • Essay on the Agrarians. Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poetry (Greenwood Press, 2005).
  • Essays on Rita Dove, Thylias Moss, Robert Frost, and Frost’s “The Road Not Taken.” A Companion to Twentieth- Century American Poetry (Facts on File, 2005).
  • Essays on the social construction of the male body and on sports in American culture. American Masculinities:  A Historical Encyclopedia (Sage Publications, 2004).
  • Review of Tom French’s Touching the Bones. Nua: Studies in Contemporary Irish Writing. Fall 2003.
  • Review of Lance Pettit’s Screening Ireland: Film and Television Representation. Nua: Studies in Contemporary Irish Writing. Spring 2002. 
  • “The Wake of the Visible World: Ralph Black’s Turning Over the Earth.” (Review) Solo. Fall 2001.

 

Works in Progress

  • Book manuscript: The Dialect of the Tribe: Modern Poetry and Ethnography (manuscript completed and under university press review; currently awaiting reader reports).
  • Book project: The South on Film (working title; manuscript in progress).  

Conference Papers  

  • "Texas, Florida, and the New New South: John Sayles' Lone Star and Sunshine State." Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference. Boston. April 4-7, 2007.
  • "Human Rights, Civil Rights, and the New New South: John Sayles' Lone Star and Sunshine State." South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference. Charlotte. November 10-12, 2006.
  •  "Anybody Raised Down Home—Down South: Warren’s Southern Ethnography.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference. Charlotte. November 10-12, 2006.
  • "Monster and the Aileen Documentaries: Civil Rights, Human Rights, and Justice on Film." Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference. Savannah. October 5-7, 2006. 
  • "Weapons of Mass Instruction: Terrorism, Propaganda Film, Politics, and Us." University Film and Video Association Conference. Chicago. August 2-6, 2005.
  •  "I choose to be a plain New Hampshire farmer’: Robert Frost and Literary Ethnography.” American Literature Association Conference. Boston. May 26-28, 2005.
  •  “Open Texts and the World Beyond the Big Screen: Propaganda Film in the Twenty-First Century.” Literature/Film Association Conference. Dallas. November 11-14, 2004.
  •   “Terrorism, Propaganda Film, Politics, and Us: New Media, New Meanings.” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference. New Orleans. September 23-25, 2004.
  • “What We Teach About When We Teach ‘What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.’” American Literature Association Conference. San Francisco. May 27-30, 2004.
  • “‘Where’re you from?’: Place, Race, and Southern Literary Ethnography.” Society for the Study of Southern Literature Biannual Conference. Chapel Hill, North Carolina. March 26-28, 2004.
  • “As We Know: Robert Frost, Proto-Postmodernist.” Dartmouth College Robert Frost Conference. Hanover, New Hampshire. July 11, 2003.
  • “Telling About the South: The Fiction of Ernest Gaines.” American Culture Association Conference. Charlotte, North Carolina. October 2-5, 2002.
  • “Whatever You Say, Say Nothing: Seamus Heaney and Postcolonial Ethnography.” Postcolonial Literature Section. South Atlantic Modern Language Association. Atlanta. November 9-11, 2001.
  • “The Politics of Indeterminacy: Transatlantic Abolitionism and Racial Hybridity in Dion Boucicault's The Octoroon.” Multi-Ethnic Drama Section. MELUS: The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States. Knoxville. March 1-4, 2001.   
  • "'Name children some names and see what you do': Indeterminacy and Destiny in Robert Frost's Poetry." Modern Language Association Conference. Washington, D.C. December 27-30, 2000.
  •  “The Predicament of Literary Ethnography: Narrative Instability and Robert Penn Warren’s Brother to Dragons.” Ethnographic Poetics Section. Modern Language Association. Washington, D.C. December 27-30, 2000.
  • "Poetical Football: John Ashbery, Romantic Poetry, and the Shape of the Canon." South Atlantic Modern Language Association. American Literature Section. Birmingham. November 9-11, 2000. 
  • "Who Speaks for the South?: Robert Penn Warren's Southern Ethnography." South Central Modern Language Association Conference. San Antonio. November 9-11, 2000.
  • “Mastering Discourse: Literary Ethnography and Narrative Instability.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association. Atlanta. November 4-6, 1999.

 

 Teaching

The Citadel:

  • ENGL 700—The Irish Question: Empire and After
  • ENGL 560—Film Studies
  • ENGL 401—Anglo-Irish Literature
  • ENGL 401—Westerns and Western Literature
  • ENGL 401—Beat Generation Literature
  • ENGL 348—Twentieth Century Southern Literature
  • ENGL 215—Masterpieces of American Literature
  • ENGL 209—Introduction to Film
  • ENGL 208—Detective Fiction
  • ENGL 204—Survey of British Literature II 
  • ENGL 203—Survey of British Literature I 
  • ENGL 202—Major British Writers II 
  • ENGL 102—Composition and Literature II  (Southern Literature)
  • ENGL 101—Composition and Literature I   
  • HONR 201—Plural Souths: Tradition and Multiculturalism

 

Professional Activities and Service

 

The Citadel:

·       Academic Advisor to Bravo Company, 2002-present.

·       Honors Committee, 2003-present.

·        Human Affairs Subcommittee on Cadet, Faculty, and Staff Relations, 2004-present.

·     Citadel NCAA Compliance Self-Study Committee, 2007-present.

·     Chair, Athletic Advisory Committee, 2007-present.

·        Athletic Advisory Committee, 2005-present.

·        Summer Scholarship Committee, 2005-present.

·         Citadel Scholars Admissions Committee, 2005-present.

·         Cadet Driving Safety Committee, 2005-present.

·         DUI/Drowsy Driving Cadet Video Project Coordinator, 2005-present.

·          Citadel London Summer Program Co-Coordinator, 2005-present.

·          Assistant Sexual Assault Response Coordinator, 2006-present.

·         Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Council, 2006-present.

·         English Department American Studies Minor Subcommittee, 2006-present.

·         English Department Job Candidate Interview Committee, 2005-6.

·         Citadel Cadet Talent Show Judge, 2006.

·         Awards Committee, 2003-2006.

·         Citadel Honor Code Program Mentor, 2005-6.

·         English Department Faculty Mentor (for Barton Swaim), 2005-6.

·          English Department Faculty Mentor (for Harry Keuper), 2004-5..

·          English Department Core Courses Committee, 2004-5.

·          Library Committee, 2003-4.

·          Faculty Advisor to The Shako (Citadel student literary magazine), 2002-2004.

·        Suitability Board Member: Bravo cadet (4/10/06), Oscar cadet (4/10/06), Bravo cadet (3/9/06), Charlie cadet (3/7/06), Bravo cadet (3/7/06), Bravo cadet (2/28/05)  

 

South Atlantic Modern Language Association:

  • Chair, Robert Penn Warren Circle panel, 2007 
  • Executive Committee, Postcolonial Literature Section, 2004-present.
  • Chair, Postcolonial Literature Section, 2003.
  • Secretary, Postcolonial Literature Section, 2002.  

 

Other Professional Activities and Service:

  • Charleston Public Library “Let’s Talk About It” series discussion:  film history, technology, and recent changes in the American film industry (October 9. 2006).
  • Chair, Film Panel, Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference. Savannah. October 5-7, 2006.  
  • Judge, 2005 and 2006 competitions for Poetry Society of South Carolina: Beatrice Ravenel Prize, Jeanne Crandall Broulik Memorial Prize, Ellen Douglas Everett Carruthers Memorial Prize, Patricia and Emmett Robinson Prize.  
  • Judge, 2005 Citadel cadet literary competition.  
  • Lecture and discussion (“Terrorism, Propaganda Film, Politics, and Us: New Media, New Meanings”) with The Citadel’s Senior Scholars Program. January 26, 2005.  
  • Chair, Panel on Film and Politics, Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference. New Orleans. September 23-25, 2004.  
  • Chair, Panel on Frost Influence/Frost Influential, Dartmouth College Robert Frost Conference, July 10, 2003. 
  • Judge, 2003 and 2004 competitions for Poetry Society of South Carolina: Lyric Poem Prize; John Robert Doyle, Jr. Prize.  
  • Lecture (“How to Succeed in College While Bracing”) as part of The Citadel’s College Success Institute (June 20, 2003).  
  • Charleston Public Library “Let’s Talk About It” series discussion: David Ogilvy’s Confessions of an Advertising Man (November 10, 2003). 
  • Lecture on Robert Frost at the Shepherd’s Center, Charleston (October 9, 2003).