Education

PhD, Harvard University
MA, Harvard University
BA (equiv.), Free Univeristy Berlin

Area(s) of Specialty

19th and 20th Century American Literature and Culture
African American, Ethnic, and Interracial Literature
Visual and Material Culture
Comparative Media Studies
Transnational American Studies
Modernism

Contact Information

Office: C208 Tribble Hall
Phone: (336) 758-4617
Email

Courses Taught at WFU

ENG 111 New York and Los Angeles:
Modern Urban Writing and Seeing
ENG 190 Literary Genres:
The Rise and Development of the American Novel
ENG 190: Literary Genres:
Introduction to the Ethnic American Novel

Selected Publications

David P. Boder. Die Toten habe ich nicht befragt. Co-edited with Werner Sollors and Alan Rosen. First German Edition of I Did Not Interview the Dead (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1949). Forthcoming in 2010.

“Degrees of Exposure: Frederick Douglass, Daguerreotypes, and Representations of Freedom.” PhiN. Philologie im Netz. (link). Forthcoming.

“‘Delusionary Thinking, Whether White or Black or In Between?’ Fictions of Race in Philip Roth’s The Human Stain.” Philip Roth Studies, Special Issue: Roth and Race 2.2 (Fall 2006): 121-137.