Education

PhD, University of Southern California
MA, California State University - Long Beach
BA, University of California - Irvine

Area(s) of Specialty

Ethnic American Literature
Jewish Cultural Studies
Chicano and Latino Literature
19th & 20th Century American Literature

Curriculum Vitae

PDF version, MS Word 2003 version

Contact Information

Office: C208Tribble
Phone: (336) 758-3549
Email

Courses Taught at WFU

ENG 111 - Writing the Natural World
ENG 170 - Introduction to American Literature
ENG 175 - Studies in American Literature
ENG 300 - Our Americas
ENG 300 - Passing, Crossing, Being:
States of Pluralism in American Literature
ENG 302 - Multiculturalism, Literature, and Political Theory
ENG 357 - Studies in Chicano Literature
ENG 371 - American Ethnic Writers
ENG371 - American Ethnic Literatures
ENG 377 - Jewish American Literature
ENG 377 - American Jewish writers
ENG 771 - American Ethnic Literature
FYS - Inauthentic, Abnormal, and Queer

Selected Publications

Ethnic American Literature:  Comparing Chicano, Jewish, and African American Writing. University of Virginia Press. 2006.

Guest Editor, Special Issue of Philip Roth Studies 2.2 Fall 2006

“Introduction:  Philip Roth and Race.”   Philip Roth Studies 2.2 Fall 2006

“What We Talk About When We Talk About Beloved.”  Modern Fiction Studies Special Issue:  Toni Morrison, Ed. Nancy J. Peterson.  52.2 2006.

“Working-Through the Archive in Alejandro Morales’ The Rag Doll Plagues.”  PMLA March 2005.