EDUCATION:
Ph.D., English Language and Literature, University of Virginia, 2007
B.S., English (Hons.) and Biochemistry, University of Michigan, 1999
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INTERESTS: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Literature; African-American Literature; Literature and Science; Literary Theory; American Counterculture Movements; New Media
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
--“‘Anything can be an instrument’: Misuse Value and Rugged Consumerism in No Country for Old Men.” Contemporary Literature 50.4 (2009)
--“How to Unmake a Cup of Coffee: Entropy in Sam Shepard’s 4-H Club.” Techknowledgies: New Cultural Imaginaries in the Humanities, Arts, & TechnoSciences. Ed. Mary Valentis. (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press,2007)
--“ ‘My Newish Voice’: Rethinking Black Power in Gwendolyn Brooks’s Whirlwind.” Callaloo 29.2 (2006) Reprinted in Critical Insights: Gwendolyn Brooks. Ed. Mildred R. Mickle. (Pasadena: Salem Press, 2009)
UNDERGRADUATE COURSES: Writing Seminars I, Writing Seminars II, Reading and Writing the Modern Essay
