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Education

M.A. English Literature, Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ (1996);

Ph.D. English Literature, University of Oregon (2002).

Courses Taught

Introduction to Literature (LIT 110)

Modern British Literature (LIT 236)

Irish Ghost Stories (LIT 246)

The Sea & The Sands (LIT 246)

Applied Literary Criticism (LIT 300)

Music and Literature (LIT 391, LIT 522)

Contemporary Irish Literature (IRSH 360)

Northern Ireland's Troubles (IRSH 360)

Contemporary Caribbean Literature (LIT 494)

Atlantic Passages (LIT 522)

Salman Rushdie (LIT 430, LIT 522)

Field of Study

Contemporary British and Irish literature; Northern Irish/"Troubles" literature; transnational literature and theory; postcolonial theory; history of rhetoric; digital culture, hypertext theory, and electronic writing technologies.

Selected Publications

"Sweetness Follows: Michael Stipe, John Keats, and the Consolations of TIme," The Poetics of American Song Lyrics, ed. Charlotte Pence (University of Missippi Press, 2012).

"The Extraordinary Ordinariness of Robert McLiam Wilson's Belfast," Eire-Ireland (Spring/Summer 2010).

 "Copia and the Discourse of Abundance in Cross-Cultural Exchange," Journal of Caribbean Literatures 6:2 (2009).

Review of Captured in the Middle: Tradition and Experience in Contemporary Native American Writing (Sidner Larson), American Indian Culture and Research Journal (25:4, 2001).