Associate Professor

 of English

Department of English 

Ohio University 

Edgar Allan Poe

Spring 2012

E.D.E.N. Southworth

Frederick Douglass

Both my teaching and my research are focused primarily on American Literature.  I have taught a number of American literature courses at Ohio University and other institutions.  For a complete list of my past courses, see my vita.  Here are the courses I am scheduled to teach during the rest of the 2011-2012 academic year and 2012-2013 academic year:

• English 322: American Literature 1865-1918 (Spring, Fall 2012)
• English 460/465: Senior Seminar--Ohio in the American Literary Imagination (Spring 2012)
• English 3070J: Research and Writing in English Studies (Fall 2012)
• English 3210: American Literature to 1865 (Spring 2013)
• English 5300/7300: Graduate Course (Topic to be announced) (Spring 2013)
  

The bulk of my academic writing has focused on the work of nineteenth-century American writers, but I've also written about twentieth-century and contemporary writers. Authors who have been the subject of my work include both well-known and obscure writers --such as Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, Frederick Douglass, E.D.E.N. Southworth, John Greenleaf Whittier, William Gilmore Simms,  Evelyn Scott, Anne Tyler, Ellen Glasgow, Michael Cunningham, and Ellen Gilchrist.  My first book  Unwelcome Voices: Subversive Fiction in the Antebellum South  was published by the University of Tennessee Press in 2005 and was awarded the Nancy Dasher Award by the College English Association of Ohio.  My second book, Against the Gallows: Antebellum American in 2011 by the University of Iowa Press. You can also see my vita for a complete list of my publications, presentations, and professional activities.

I am also the faculty sponsor for Ohio University's chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, the International English Honors Society.

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