Associate Professor of English

Office: Fretwell 250E
Phone: 704.687.4216
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Education

• Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles
• M.A., University of Oregon
• B.A., University of South Carolina at Columbia

Areas of Interest

• Literary theory
• Narrative theory
• History of the novel
• Cognitive literary studies
• British literature
• Book-length project on writing as a technology and the novel as genre

Books

The Technology of the Novel: Writing and Narrative in British Fiction. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.

The Subject of Modernism: Narrative Alterations in the Fiction of Eliot, Conrad, Woolf, and Joyce. University of Michigan Press, 1994.

Selected Articles in Refereed Journals

“Televisual Realism: The Truman Show". Forthcoming at Mosaic.

“A Response to Joseph Carroll.” Invited response for special issue, An Evolutionary Paradigm for Literary Study. Style: 42: 2 & 3 (Summer/Fall 2008): 212-216.

“Writing, Orality, Cinema: The ‘Story’of Citizen Kane.” Narrative 16:1 (2008): 29-45

---“‘Graphism’ and Storytime in Memento.“ Mosaic 40:3 (2007): 51-66.

---“The De-Composition of Writing in A Passage to India.” Journal of Modern Literature. 29:3 (2006): 1-18.

“Explanation, Interpretation, and Close Reading: the Progress of Cognitive Poetics.” Forthcoming at Poetics Today 26:3 (Fall 2005): 171-185.

---. “Writing and the Disembodiment of Language.” Philosophy and Literature 27:1 (2003): 115-132.

---. “‘Literary Interpretation’ and Cognitive Literary Studies.” Invited Response for Special Issue The Cognitive Turn?: A Debate on Interdisciplinarity. Poetics Today 24:2 (Summer 2003): 191-205.

---. “R. D. Laing, Doris Lessing and Cold War Madness.” Doris Lessing Studies 22:2 (Spring 2002): 11-17.

---. “Issues and Problems in the Blending of Cognitive Science, Evolutionary Psychology, and Literary Study.” Invited Response Essay for Special Issue Literature, Culture, and the Cognitive Revolution. Poetics Today 23:1 (Spring 2002): 161-179.

--- and Christiane Bongartz, “A Furious Sleep: Chomsky’s Linguistic Theory and Literary Criticism.” Literature and Linguistics: Approaches, Models, Applications: Studies in Honor of Jon Erickson Eds Marion Gymnioch, Ansgar Nunning and Vera Nunning. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2002: 37-46.

---. Narrative, Postmodernism, and the Cold War Sense of an Ending.” Narrative 8:3 (October 2000): 324-338.

---. “Questioning Interdisciplinarity: Cognitive Science, Evolutionary Psychology, and Literary Criticism.” Poetics Today 21:2 (Summer 2000): 319-347.

---. “The Manchurian Candidate and the Gender of the Cold War.” Literature/Film Quarterly 28.1 (January 2000): 34-40.

Courses Taught

Graduate

• English 5123: Modern British Novel
• English 6880: Narrative/Theory
• English 6101: Introduction to English Studies
• English 6070: The Art/Work of Film/Viewing

Undergraduate

• English 4124: Modern Irish Literature
• English 4123: Modern British Novel
• English 4050: The Art/Work of Film/Viewing
• English 3128: British Literature Since WWI
• English 3050H: Narratives of the Cold War
• English 3050: Contemporary British Fiction
• English 2128: Introduction to Fiction Writing
• English 2105: Introduction to Poetry
• English 2100: Writing about Literature
• English 3100: Approaches to Literature
• English 2090: Books into Film
• English 2070: Tuesday Night at the Movies
• English 2106: Film Criticism
• Liberal Studies 1102: Film and Culture

Professional Appointments

• Idaho State University: 1993-1994
• UNCC: 1994-present

Awards

• English Graduate Association Graduate Professor of the year: 2004-2005
• First Harshini Dasilva Award for Graduate Mentoring, April 18, 2001.