Assistant Professor of English

Office: Fretwell 290J
Phone: 704.687.4310
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Education

• Ph.D., University of Maryland at College Park, 2003.
• M.A. and B.A., Georgia State University, 1994 and 1991.

Research Interests

• American Literature & Culture, Poetry
• Gender and Sexuality Studies
• Textual Theory, Digital Studies

Selected Publications and Presentations

Books:

• Modernist Writings and Religio-Scientific Discourse: H.D., Loy, and Toomer. Forthcoming, Palgrave-Macmillan Press, 2010.  (monograph)
• Emily Dickinson's Correspondences (with Martha Nell Smith).  Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008. (edition)

Recent Articles:

• “Theories of Spiritual Evolution, Christian Science, and the ‘Cosmopolitan Jew’: Mina Loy and American Identity.”  Journal of Modern Literature 31.1 (2007): 47-63.
• “Editing Dickinson in an Electronic Environment.”  Blackwell Companion to Emily Dickinson. Blackwell Press, 2008.  437-452.
• “Representing ‘a sort of composite person’:  Autobiography, Sexuality, and Collaborative Authorship in H.D.'s Prose and Scrapbook.”  Genre 36.1/2 (Spring/Summer 2003): 107-129.
• “Witnessing Dickinson’s Witnesses” (with Jarom McDonald).  Literary and Linguistic Computing 18.2 (2003): 151-165.

Recent Presentations:

• “‘[B]ackward to go forward’: Narrative in H.D.’s The Sword Went Out to Sea,” Modernist Studies Association, Montreal, QC, Canada, November 5, 2009.
• “H.D. and the Statue,” American Literature Association, Boston, MA, May 23, 2009.
• “Reading and Writing ‘[a] sort of clairvoyant material plane’: Performance and Spirituality in H.D.’s Prose,” Modernist Studies Association, Long Beach, CA, November 3, 2007.
• “‘The realism of white lightning’: Electromagnetism and Modernist Aesthetics in H.D.’s Nights,” Modernist Studies Association, Tulsa, OK, October 22, 2006.

Courses Taught:

• American Modernism
• Modern American Poetry
• American Literature Survey

Curriculum Vitae