Research and Teaching Fields:

Composition and Literature. Literature and Films of the 1970s; When Animals Attack Fiction; Conspiracy Theory Narratives.

Education:

Research, Teaching, and Other Interests:

• “’Surpassed by Her Beauty’: The Male Gaze, the Sympathetic Imagination, and the Complications of Marie de France’s Proto-Feminism”
• “’Trouble Still Comes Around’: Sisyphean Philosophy in the Whedonverse”
• “’It Troubles Almost Any Thinking Person’: Promoting Critical Thinking Skills through Stephen King’s Firestarter”

Works in Progress:

• All Things That Hate and Maul: A Critical Study of Animals Attack Narratives from Jaws to Cujo

Courses Taught:

• EN111: First-Year Composition I
• EN112: First-Year Composition II
• EN111H: Honors First-Year Composition I
• EN112H: Honors First-Year Composition II
• EN211: Survey of British Literature I
• EN211H: Honors Survey of British Literature I
• EN212: Survey of British Literature II
• EN221: American Literature through Whitman
• EN231: Literature of the World I
• EN231H: Honors Literature of the World I
• EN232: Literature of the World II