About

Teaching

Writing: Expression, Grammar, Rhetoric, Persuasion, Logic, Citations, and Research
Literature: American Literature (pre-Colonial to present), African-American Literature, Literature by Women, Great Books
Face-to-face, online (asynchronous and synchronous)

15+ years college teaching experience

15+ years research and publication experience

10+ years FT faculty experience, including admin (co-chair)

Current Research / Writing / Projects

“‘A Few Funny Things’: Hemingway’s Early Interest in Spanish History and Politics.” Article accepted with minor revisions at peer-reviewed journal

Select Publications

“John Dos Passos and the Promise and Failures of the Second Spanish Republic, 1933,” John Dos Passos’s Transatlantic Chronicling: Critical Essays on the Interwar Years, edited by Aaron Shaheen and Rosa Bautista, Univ. of Tennessee Press, 2022, pp. 234-65. (pdf)
“‘Baptized Spanish:’ Gertrude Stein and the Making of a Spaniard.” Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, vol. 18, no. 4, 2016, pp. 524-544. (pdf)
“The Conflict of ‘Being Gypsy’ in For Whom the Bell Tolls.” The Hemingway Review, vol. 28, no. 2, Spring 2009, pp. 87-104. (pdf)