Ph.D. in English, University of California, Riverside, 2004
M.A. in English, San Jose State University, 1999
B.A. in Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley, 1992
Research and Teaching Interests
Veterans in American Literature, 18th/19th C. American Literature, American Poetry, Science Fiction, Literature and Religion.
Recent Publications
“Teaching as Leading: Valuing the Veteran in All of Us.” Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture 16.3 (October 2016): 539-549.
Bayard Taylor: Determined Dreamer of America’s Rise, 1825-1878. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2014.
“‘Brave Words’: Rehabilitating the Veteran-Writer.”College English74.4 (March 2012): 351-65.
“Achilles Among the Maidens.” War, Literature, and the Arts 24.1 (2012): 216-24.