Teaching Interests:
Twentieth-Century Literature, Magic Realism, Impact of World War I on Art and Literature 

 

“Writing About Violence in a Secular Age,” College Literature 39:2 (2012): 98-109.

“Violence and Laughter in Women in Love,” D. H. Lawrence Review 36 (2011): 56-71.

 

"Falling Towers: The Waste Land and September 11, 2001." In The Waste Land at 90: A Retrospective. Ed. Joe Moffett. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rodopi, 2011.  217-225.

 

“Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious in Heart of Darkness,” Psychoanalytic Review 97 (2010): 469-482.

 

“Conrad and the Literary Marketplace” The Historical Guide to Joseph Conrad, ed. John Peters, Oxford University Press, 2010. 77-104.

 

“The German Detour from Ulysses to Magic Realism,” Modern Language Quarterly 70 (2009): 245-268.

 

“Why Isn’t Lady Chatterley Beautiful?” D. H. Lawrence Review 32-33 (2003-2004): 115-125. [Publ. 2008]

 

“Epilogue: How Poetic Authority Became Authoritarian.” Little Magazines and Modernism: New Approaches. Ed. Suzanne W. Churchill and Adam McKible. Hampshire, England: Ashgate Publishing, 2008. 131-147.

 

"Representing Violence in a Secular Age"

 

Chair of English Department

Treasurer of D. H. Lawrence Society of North America

Director of University Honors Program

Trustee of Joseph Conrad Society of North America