Education

PhD, Washington (St. Louis
MA, Southern Illinois
BA, Southern Illinois

Area(s) of Specialty

Literary Criticism
Contemporary American Literature

Contact Information

Office: C21 Tribble Hall
Phone: (336) 758-5376
Email

Personal Website

Courses Taught at WFU

ENG 170 - Introduction to American Literature
ENG 364 - Studies in Literary Criticism
ENG 783 - Contemporary American Fiction

Selected Publications

Socrates and the Irrational.  University of Virginia Press.  2006.

The Sovereignty of Taste. University of Illinois Press. 2002

The Site of Our Lives: The Self and the Subject from Emerson to Foucalt, State University of New York Press, 1995.

"Alexander Nehamas and The Art of Living," Philosophy Today, Summer 2000, pp. 190-205.

"The Daimonion of Czeslaw Milosz," The Great River Review, Number 30, Spring, 1999, pp. 44-62.