Department of English

Courses
ENG 225 American Literature I: to 1860
ENG 226 American Literature II: from 1860
ENG 335 Literature of American Minorities
Liberal Studies 350: The Immigrant Experience in the U.S.

Research Interests
20th-Century U.S. Literature and Film, Ecocriticism, Evolution and Thermodynamics, Cybernetics, Animal Studies.

Recent Publications
“Thermodynamics.” Routledge Companion to Literature and Science. Ed. Bruce Clarke and Manuela Rossini. New York and London: Routledge, 2010. 226-37.

“The Miseducation of Henry Adams: Fantasies of Race, Citizenship, and Darwinian Dynamos.” Darwin in Atlantic Cultures: Evolutionary Visions of Race, Gender, and Sexuality. Routledge Research in Atlantic Studies. Ed. Jeannette Eileen Jones and Patrick B. Sharp. New York and London: Routledge, 2010. 260-82.

“Performing the Perfect Dog: The Reconstruction of Gender in Jack London’s The Call of the Wild and White Fang.” Forces of Nature: Natural(izing) Gender and Gender(ing) Nature in the Discourses of Western Culture. Ed. Bernadette H. Hyner and Precious McKenzie Stearns. Newcastle upon Tyme: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009. 174-210.

Education
B.A., University of Rochester
M.A., Villanova University
Ph.D., University of Kansas