Courses

ENG 225 American Literature I: to 1860
ENG 226 American Literature II: from 1860
ENG 330 Studies in Fiction
ENG 605 Seminar in American Literature
ENG 661 Major Author(s): Flannery O'Connor

Research Interests

Feminist, domestic and corporeal issues in the fiction of Flannery O'Connor
Theological issues in the short fiction of John Updike
Food issues in the fiction of Ben Okri and Jhumpa Lahiri 

Recent Publications

Flannery O'Connor in the Age of Terrorism: Essays on Violence and Grace. Eds. Avis Hewitt and Robert Donahoo. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 2010 (forthcoming).

"Arguing Each Bundren: Old Autonomies and the Fecklessly Familial." Approaches to Teaching As I Lay Dying. New York: MLA Approaches Series. Forthcoming 2007.  

"`Someone to Shoot Her Every Minute of Her Life': Maternity and Violent Death in Flannery O'Connor and Helena Maria Viramontes." The Flannery O'Connor Review. 4 (2006): 12-26.

"Ignoring `Unmistakable Likeness': Mark Fortune's Miss-Fortune in Flannery O'Connor's `A View of the Woods.'" On the Subject of the Feminist Business: Re-Reading Flannery O'Connor. Ed. Teresa Caruso. New York: Peter Lang, 2004.

"Intimations of Immortality: Mastered Irony in John Updike's `Pigeon Feathers.'' Christianity and Literature. 49.4  (Summer 2000): 499-509.

Education

B.A. The College of Wooster
M.A., Ph.D., Ball State University