Faculty Member, English
Assistant Professor
English
About
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Siena Heights University. In addition to composition courses and introductory literature courses I teach African-American lit. and Literary Criticism.
Last year I taught African-American history at a local community college as well as courses in the Arts and Humanities division at Defiance College. Specifically, I taught the college's writing intensive first-year courses, AH 110, Writing the Self in American Culture, and AH 120, Writing the World. My sections of AH 110 focused on violence and masculinity within mythologies of the US frontier. My AH 120 course focused on trauma, memory and diaspora in the twentieth century.
Previously I taught in the Department of Ethnic Studies at BGSU. In addition to core courses on race and ethnicity in the U.S., I taught classes on race and mass media and Civil Rights Movements.
My research focuses on intersections of race, memory and masculinity in the postwar American South. I am currently revising a book manuscript on the postwar history of Richmond, Virginia's Monument Avenue. I am also starting a project on the performance of Southern identities within the liminal South.
I'm husband to Karin and father to Pearl.
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