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Teaching and Research Interests:
Nineteenth-century American literature (concentrations in Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, American Transcendentalism); eighteenth-century and Romantic British literature; creative writing (journals and notebooks; creative nonfiction); Eugene O'Neill; modern American drama
Recent Courses:
Advanced College Writing
American Literature (Beginnings to 1860)
British Literature (Neoclassic and Romantic)
Introduction to Literature
Notebooks and Journals
M.A. seminars on Walt Whitman, Eugene O'Neill, Emily Dickinson, American Transcendentalism
Publications and Presentations:
- Reading and Writing from Literature (introductory writing and literature textbook);
- The Frailest Leaves: Whitman's Poetic Technique and Style in the Short Poem (book);
- Writing Across the Curriculum: An Annotated Bibliography (book);
- articles and presentations on (titles/topics):
- "The Greatest Lover" (Walt Whitman)
- "What's in a Note?" (theory and practice of taking notes)
- "Chanticleer Poet" (Henry David Thoreau)
- "Literature, So What?" (why read and write?)
- "Idle Thoughts"
- "Samuel Johnson on Imagination"
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