Our Faculty

Courses I Teach

• ENGL2701 Literature & Film
• ENGL2321 Love & Gender in British Literature and Film
• ENGL3303 Images of Masculinity
• ENGL3703 Critical Theory & the Academy
• ENGL3707 Film Theory
• ENGL2402 Shakespeare
• HONOR2202 Reading "Shakespeare"
• ENGL4999 Theories of the Grotesque
• ENGL4999 The Psychoanalytic Imagination

Publications + Presentations

• "Critical Evanescence: Rethinking Early Modern Subjectivity through Lacan." In "Lacanian Interpretations of Shakepeare," a special issue of The Shakespeare Yearbook,  2010.
• "The Art of Disorientation: Image, Event, and the Politics of Response in three films about 9/11." Enculturation, May 2009

Textbook companions

• Heath Anthology of American Literature, 2001-2003
  Researched, edited, and wrote content for interactive literary, historical, and cultural timeline (1530-2000) for textbook companion website and maintained the site quarterly.
• Raimes, Keys for Writers, 2003
  Designed and wrote material for companion website to Ann Raimes's Keys for Writers series.
• Jack Rawlins, The Writer's Way, 2003
  Updated and edited Instructor's Resource Manual
• John Chaffee, Thinking Critically, 2002
  Updated Instructor's Resource Manual
• Vandermey et al, The College Writer, 2002
  Designed and wrote material for interactive textbook companion website.
• Cooper, Literacy: Helping Children to Construct Meaning, 2001
  Designed and wrote material for interactive textbook companion website.

Presentations and Lectures

• "'Guys Drive on Ice': A Topological Study of Masculinity in Breaking Bad," International Narrative Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, March 2012
• "See Dick Dream His Own Death: Pseudocide Fantasies in Contemporary American Television," International Narrative Conference, Cleveland, Ohio, April 2010
• "Monstrous Lover: Gender and Narrative Form in Lady Mary Wroth's Sonnets," International Narrative Conference, Birmingham, England, June 2009
• "After the 'Unspeakable:' Tensions between Theory and the Real in post-9/11 Cultural Texts," International Narrative Conference, Austin, Texas, May 2008.
• "L'Enfant Terrible: Narrative, Subjectivity, and the Story after Theory," International Narrative Conference, Washington D. C., March 2007.
• "The Man of Action: Masculinity as Legitimizing Narrative in the War in Iraq." International Narrative Conference, Ottawa, April 2006.
• "Critical Evanescence: Rethinking Early Modern Subjectivity through Lacan," Renaissance Society of America, San Francisco, March 2006.
• "'I am not I, pity the tale of me': Narrative Encounters with the Real in Filmic Depictions of 9/11." International Narrative Conference, Louisville, Kentucky, April 2005.
• "Art and the Cult: the beautiful-grotesque in Geek Love." Narrative Conference, Burlington, Vermont, April 2004.
• "Strange Beauty: the objet petit a and Critical Discourse," Annual Interdisciplinary Conference at USC, Los Angeles, April 2004.
• "Beauty, Hurston, Sex, Trees, and Libations." Feminist Colloquium, Brandeis University, April 1996.

Research Focus

Early modern British literature, gender studies, psychoanalytic theory, critical theory, film