Visiting Assistant Professor

20th and 21st-century American and British literature; poetry and poetics; modernism; postmodernism; language theory; narrative theory; blues; aesthetics.

“Robert Penn Warren’s Panoramic Ecology in Audubon: A Vision,” Literary Imagination (Oxford UP), vol. 20, no. 1, 2018: 43-53.

“Populism and Experimental Ecopoetics: Ed Roberson’s City Eclogue.” Literary Matters, vol. 15, no. 2., 2023.

“Ulyssean Visions and Teju Cole’s Global Palimpsest: Making the Modern Contemporary,”

Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers, Yale University, October 2022.

“Teju Cole’s Global Palimpsest: Making the Modern Contemporary,”

1922/2022 – Total Modernism: Continuity, Discontinuity, and the Experimental Turn, Università degli Studi di Torino, May 2022.

“Virginia Woolf’s Artistry: Synecdoche and Thematic Tensions in To The Lighthouse,”

Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers, College of the Holy Cross, October 2019.

“East to West: Narration in The Beatles’ Revolver”

Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers, Vanderbilt University, November 2018.

“Human Ecology in Hemingway and Warren,”

Ernest Hemingway Society, Paris, France, July 2018.

“Panoramic Ecology in Robert Penn Warren’s Audubon: A Vision,”

Robert Penn Warren Circle, University of Western Kentucky, April 2018.

“Jimi Hendrix’s Muse: ‘Manic Depression,’ ‘Little Wing,’ and ‘Voodoo Childe.’”

Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers, University of Dallas, October 2017.

“The Usable Past: Robert Penn Warren’s Brother to Dragons,”

Robert Penn Warren Circle, University of Western Kentucky, April 2017.

“Panel on Or Else,” Robert Penn Warren Circle, University of Western Kentucky, April 2014.

“Jack Burden: Picaro?”

Robert Penn Warren Circle, University of Western Kentucky, April 2011.