| Institution | Degree | Graduation Date |
|---|---|---|
| University of Kansas | Doctorate in English | 2010 |
| Texas Tech University | Master's in English | 2004 |
| Texas Tech University | Bachelor's in English | 1993 |
| Employer | Position | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| MSU Texas | Professor | 08/15/2023 | |
| MSU Texas | Associate Professor of English | 08/15/2017 | 05/15/2023 |
| MSU Texas | Assistant Professor of English | 08/15/2012 | 08/15/2017 |
Academic Publications
Articles / Chapters
"'theirs is a kind of ecological esthetics': Three Mountain Poems by Kenneth Rexroth, Gary Snyder, and Philip Whalen." Western American Literature: A Journal of Literary, Cultural, and Place Studies 57.3 (Fall 2022): 285-308.
"Of Coyotes and Werewolves: Bret Easton Ellis' Less than Zero." The Explicator 80.3-4 (July-Sept. 2022): 90-93.
"'Surface, surface, surface was all that anyone found meaning in': American Psycho and the Pictures Generation." Popular Culture Review 31.2 (Summer 2020): 131-153.
"Bryce Conrad, Made in the American Grain (1951-1917)." William Carlos Williams Review 35.1 (Jan. 2018): 1-9.
"'The Young Person's Guide' to Moonrise Kingdom: Wes Anderson's Theme & Variations on a Theme and Variations of Benjamin Britten." Popular Culture Review 26.2 (Summer 2015): 41-54.
"'another old Buddhist monastery thing': The Misguided Zen of Fight Club." Popular Culture Review 26.1 (Winter 2015): 5-17.
"Entering the 'Gate of Nondualism': Gary Snyder's 'On Vulture Peak' and Mahayana Shunyata." Journal of Beat Studies 3 (2014): 47-68.
"'No Permanent Home': The Five Skandhas and Philip Whalen's 'The Slop Barrel.'" Philosophy and Literature 37.2 (Oct. 2013): 405-420.
"'upsidedown like fools': Jack Kerouac's 'Desolation Blues' and the Struggle for Enlightenment." Texas Studies in Language and Literature 53.2 (Summer 2011): 179-206.
"Whitman's 'Out from Behind this Mask.'" The Explicator 68.1 (Spring 2010): 23-25.
"Melville's 'Bartleby, the Scrivener.'" The Explicator 65.2 (Winter 2007): 88-90.
"Counterpoint, Memory, and Leitmotifs in Willa Cather's 'A Wagner Matinee.'" Willa Cather Newsletter and Review 51.2 (Fall 2007): 35-38.
"William Carlos Williams's 'The Rose is Obsolete.'" The Explicator 66.1 (Fall 2007): 21-25.
"Using Melville's 'Bartleby, the Scrivener' to Teach Deconstruction in the Introduction to Fiction Classroom." Eureka Studies in Teaching Short Fiction 27.2 (Spring 2007): 128-135.
"Writing and Chutnification in Rushdie's Midnight's Children." The Explicator 65.3 (Spring 2007): 182-185.
"'That Night We Had Our Show': Twain and Audience." Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Bloom's Modern Critical Editions. Ed. Harold Bloom. Chelsea House Publications, 2007. 193-201.
"'That Night We Had Our Show': Twain and Audience." American Literary Realism 37.1 (2004): 50-58.
Edited Correspondence / Bibliographies
"Fall 2009 to Fall 2014 William Carlos Williams Bibliography." William Carlos Williams Review 31.2 (Fall 2014): 89-98.
"Fall 2009 William Carlos Williams Bibliography." William Carlos Williams Review 29.2 (Fall 2009): 217-219.
"Fall 2007 William Carlos Williams Bibliography." William Carlos Williams Review 27.2 (Fall 2007): 107-111.
"'It carries the battle forward': An Unpublished Letter from William Carlos Williams to Edwin J. Becker, Prisoner Poet." William Carlos Williams Review 27.1 (Spring 2007): 71-73.
"Fall 2006 William Carlos Williams Bibliography." William Carlos Williams Review 26.2 (Fall 2006): 105-108.
"Introduction: A Decade of Books." William Carlos Williams Review 25.2 (Fall 2005): 1-3.
"Comprehensive Williams Bibliography (1994-2004)." William Carlos Williams Review 25.2 (Fall 2005): 75-114.
Book Reviews
Rev. of Crowded by Beauty: The Life and Zen of Poet Philip Whalen by David Schneider. Journal of the American Studies Association of Texas 46 (Nov. 2016): 60-61.
Rev. of Crowded by Beauty: The Life and Zen of Poet Philip Whalen by David Schneider. Journal of Beat Studies 4 (2015): 69-74.
Rev. of Pilgrims to Elsewhere by Gregory Stephenson. Journal of Beat Studies 3 (2014): 119-124.
Rev. of White Liberal Identity, Literary Pedagogy, and Classic American Realism by Phillip Barrish. American Literary Realism 40.2 (Winter 2008): 186-188.
Rev. of Simon & Schuster's Hemingway Audio Collection. The Hemingway Review 26.1 (Nov./ Dec. 2006): 128-131.