Education

PhD, University of California, Irvine
MA, University of California, Irvine
BFA, Cornish College of the Arts

Area(s) of Specialty

Jazz and Literature
20th Century African American Literature 20th Century Novel
Caribbean Poetry
Theories of Temporality

Contact Information

Office: C5D Tribble Hall
Phone: (336) 758-3903
Email

Courses Taught at WFU

ENG 111 Jazz and American Culture
ENG 175 Literature's Use and Abuse of History

Selected Publications

“Chronopolitics, Race, and Sublimation: Ragtime and Symphonic Time in James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man” – Fall 2006 (40.3), African American Review

“Between Immanence and Transcendence: Theorizing the Time of a Transformative Politics”   New Essays on the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. Ed. Alfred Drake. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008. 

"Prolepsis and Parabasis: Jazz and the Novel" –  Novel,  2009. Forthcoming.