• 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 300—Honors 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. 
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• "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.
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• “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.
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• “Terrorism, Propaganda Film, Politics, and Us: New Media, New Meanings.”Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference. New Orleans. September 23-25, 2004.
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• “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.

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