Lecturer

Office: Fretwell 250D
Phone: 704.687.2790

Education

• Ph.D.  University of South Carolina, 2007
• M.A. Univerity of Charleson & The Citadel, 2000
• B.A. Roanoke College, 1996

Areas of Interest

• The writings of Walter Benjamin and their connection to questions posed by studies in New Media Composition
• Scholarly Performance and New Media Theory
• Gertrude Stein's Paris, "La génération perdue" and American Modernism
• "Revolutionary" art, literature in history
• William Blake and British Romantic Poetry
• The Gothic novel and its reincarnation in later Monster Narratives and films
• Ancient Greek Drama
• Creative Writing
• Autobiography

CURRENT PROJECTS & SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Scholarship:

• "'The Structure of Awakening': Walter Benjamin and Progressive Scholarship in New Media" (Doctoral Dissertation, August 2007)
  http://www.thelemming.com/lemming/dissertation-web/home/structure.html
• The Arcades Project Project or The Rhetoric of Hypertext (2004-present)
  http://www.thelemming.com/lemming/dissertation-web/home/arcades.html
• "Henry Miller's Tropic Novels : Weather, Sickness and Benjamin's Flâneur " in Nexus: The International Henry Miller Journal, (January 2009).
• "Wandering Around in Beachy Head." Narrative 2002: An International Conference. Michigan State University. April 11-14 (2002)
• "The Flâneur as Self-Referential Narrator: Hidden Texts and Roving Eyes in American Autobiographical Prose and Poetry" (Master's Thesis, 2000)

Presentations in the Visual Arts

• "Containment"-- art installation presented at The Light Factory with Jen Crickenberger (May 2007)
• "One Heat One Blow" --twelve-piece sumi ink on paper series, presented at The Art Garage (November 2006)

Current Projects in Creative Writing

• Heartsblood  (2008-present).
• M (2006-present).

Courses taught

• ENGL1101: Freshman Composition
• ENGL1102: Writing in the Academic Community
• LBST2212: Literature and Culture: "Literatures of Resistance and Cultures on the Verge"

Professional Appointments

• University of North Carolina at Charlotte , Charlotte, NC, Adjunct Instructor (2007-2008) Lecturer (2008-present)
• University of South Carolina , Columbia, SC, Teaching Assistant/Adjunct Instructor (2000-2007)
• Trident Technical College , Charleston, SC. Adjunct Instructor (2000-2002)
• University of Charleston , Charleston, SC Teaching Assistant (1999-2000)
• University of Versaille , Versaille, France. Teaching & Research Fellow/Lectrice (1998-1999)