Education:

 

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

Teaching:

 
  • ENGL 700—Plural Souths: Tradition and Change
  • ENGL 700—Irish Literature: The Irish Question
  • ENGL 560—Film Studies
  • ENGL 402—Senior Seminar: War and Social Conflict on Film
  • 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 
  • ENGL 101—Composition and Literature I 

 

  • HONR 300Honors Film Studies 
  • HONR 201—Plural Souths: Tradition and Multiculturalism

 


  • Honors/awards:

    James A. Grimsley Undergraduate Teaching Award (2008)


Scholarly and Professional Activities:

 

 

works in progress

  • Book manuscript: The Dialect of the Tribe: Modern Poetry and Ethnography (manuscript completed and undergoing publisher's reader/referee review process)
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  • Book project: The South on Film (working title; project in early development/planning stages)


Scholarly Journal Publications—Peer Reviewed

             

  • “Chopin's The Awakening.” The Explicator 64.1 (2006): 220-223.
  • “Anybody Raised Down Home—Down South: Brother to Dragons and Warren’s Southern Ethnography.”  Mississippi Quarterly 58.1-2 (2005): 347-372. (Note: Despite the issue date, this issue was actually published in Fall 2006.)
  • “Weapons of Mass Instruction: Terrorism, Propaganda Film, Politics, and Us.”  2005 Film and History CD-ROM Annual; originally published in Studies in Popular Culture 27.3 (2005): 59-73.
  • “Robert Frost’s ‘West-Running Brook.’” The Explicator 63.1 (2004): 40-43.

 

 

Essays in Edited Volumes

 

  •   “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 January 2009).

 

 

Encyclopedia Entries and Book Reviews

  • Entry on the Agrarians. Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry (Greenwood Press, 2005), eight pages long in manuscript form.
  • Entries 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), 134-136, 171-174, 329, 425-426.
  • Entries on the social construction of the male body and on sports in American culture. American Masculinities:  A Historical Encyclopedia (Sage Publications, 2004), 56-59, 435-437.   
     Review of Andrew Myers' Black, White & Olive Drab: Racial Integration at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, and the Civil Rights Movement. Studies in American Culture. Fall 2007. 
  • Review of Tom French’s Touching the Bones. Nua: Studies in Contemporary Irish Writing 3.1 (2002): 139-144.
  • 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.

 

 


Conference Presentations

 

  • "Superideology: Post-9/11 Superhero Movies and the Global War on Terror." Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference. New Orleans. April 9-12, 2009.
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  • "Monster and the Aileen Documentaries: Recording and Revising History on Film." Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference. San Francisco. March 19-22, 2008. 

  • "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.
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  •  "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. 
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  • Anybody Raised Down Home—Down South: Warren’s Southern Ethnography.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference. Charlotte. November 10-12, 2006. 
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  • Monster and the Aileen Documentaries: Civil Rights, Human Rights, and Justiceon Film.” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference. Savannah. October 5-7, 2006. 
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  • "Weapons of Mass Instruction: Terrorism, Propaganda Film, Politics, and Us." University Film and Video Association Conference. Chicago. August 2-6, 2005. 
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  • “‘I choose to be a plain New Hampshire farmer’: Robert Frost and LiteraryEthnography.” 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.
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  • “‘Name children some names and see what you do’: Indeterminacy and Destiny in Robert Frost's Poetry."  Modern Language Association. 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. 
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  • “Who Speaks for the South?: Robert Penn Warren’s Southern Ethnography.” South Central Modern Language Association. Southern Literature Section. San Antonio. November 9-11, 2000.

  • “Mastering Discourse: Literary Ethnography and Narrative Instability.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association. Atlanta. November 4-6, 1999.

 

 

Service

Service to the College:

 

Standing College-Wide Committees:

 

  •         International Education Study Group, 2007-present.
  •         Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Council, 2006-present.
  •         Athletic Advisory Committee, 2005-present (Chair, 2007-2008).
  •         Summer Scholarship Committee, 2005-present.
  •         Citadel Scholars Admissions Committee, 2005-present.
  •         Honors Committee, 2003-present.      
  •         Awards Committee, 2003-2006.       

College-Wide Ad Hoc Committees or Task Forces:

  • Cadet Driving Safety Committee, 2005-present.

 

College-Wide Accreditation or Strategic Planning Initiatives:

  • Citadel NCAA Compliance Self-Study Committee, 2007-2008.

 

Other Service to the College:

  • DUI/Drowsy Driving Cadet Video Project Coordinator .

 

  • The Citadel Summer in London Program Co-Director, 2005-2008; Director, 2008-present.

 

Service to the Department:

 

  • English Department Job Candidate Search Committee (Contemporary literature position and Renaissance literature position), 2007.
  • English Department American Studies Minor Subcommittee, 2006-present.
  • Citadel Summer in London Program Co-Director, 2005-2008; Director, 2008-present.
  • English Department Job Candidate MLA Interview Committee (Medieval literature position and Modern literature position), 2005-6.
  • English Department Faculty Mentor (for Lauren Rule), 2008-present. 
  • 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.
  • Faculty Advisor to The Shako (Citadel student literary magazine), 2002-2004.

 

Service to the Students:

  • Cadet Driving Safety Committee (2006-present).

 

  • DUI/Drowsy Driving Cadet Video Project Coordinator (2006-present).  

 

  • Faculty Academic Advisor to Bravo Company (2002-present).

 

  • Citadel Cadet Talent Show Judge, 2006.

 

  • Citadel Honor Code Program Mentor (2005-6).

 

  • Awards Committee (2003-2006).

 

 

Service to the Community or Public:

  •   Lecture and discussion ("Modern Irish Literature and Social Conflict") at the Center for Creative Retirement (March 17, 2009).
    DUI/Drowsy Driving Cadet Video Project Coordinator.

 

  • Judge, 2007 competitions for Poetry Society of South Carolina: Lyric Poem Prize and Post and Courier Prize.

 

  • Charleston Public Library “Let’s Talk About It” series discussion:  film history, technology, and recent changes in the American film industry (October 9, 2006).
  • Judge, 2006 and 2005 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).  
  • Judge, 2004 and 2003 competitions for Poetry Society of South Carolina: Lyric Poem Prize; John Robert Doyle, Jr. Prize.  
  • 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).
  • Lecture (“How to Succeed in College While Bracing”) as part of The Citadel’s College Success Institute (June 20, 2003).  

 

Service to the Discipline:

  • Chair, Film and Media Studies Panel, Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference, 2009. 
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  • Secretary, Robert Penn Warren Circle Section, South Atlantic Modern Language Association Convention, 2008 and 2006. 
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  • Chair, Robert Penn Warren Circle Section, South Atlantic Modern Language Association Convention, 2007.

 

  • Chair, Film Panel, Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference, 2006. 

 

  • Executive Committee, Postcolonial Literature Section, South Atlantic Modern Language Association Convention, 2004-2006.

 

  • Chair, Panel on Film and Politics, Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference, 2004.  

 

  • Chair, Postcolonial Literature Section, South Atlantic Modern Language Association Convention, 2003.

 

  • Chair, Panel on Frost Influence/Frost Influential, Dartmouth College Robert Frost Conference, 2003. 

 

  • Secretary, Postcolonial Literature Section, South Atlantic Modern Language Association Convention, 2002.