Education
B.A., Worcester State College
M.A., Boston College
Ph.D., University of Rhode Island
- Literary & Critical Theory
- 19th - 21st c. American & Multiethnic Literatures
- Narrative Theory
- Early American Literatures
The American Novel After Ideology, 1961-2000 (Bloomsbury, 2022 paperback; 2020 hardback)
“The ‘right-looking girl’ in the raccoon coat: How to Read A Cliché, Like Franny Glass.” Journal of Narrative Theory, 50.1: Winter 2020 (120 - 51), E. Michigan UP.
“Reconsidering Aesthetics and Ideology in Carlene Hatcher Polite’s The Flagellants.” College Literature, 45.1: Winter 2018 (76 – 105). Johns Hopkins UP.
I also have an article forthcoming with the Journal of Narrative Theory this fall 2023: "The Medium & Its Messages: Chris MacNeil’s Characterization in The Exorcist (c. 1971)”