Assistant Professor of English
Ph.D. University of Kentucky (1999)

research interests

Primary: twentieth-century intellectual history, God and religion in literature, and atheism

Secondary: origins-of-totalitarianism narratives

regularly-taught courses

• Introduction to Literature
• American Literature Survey II
• Introduction to African American Literature
• Multiethnic Literature
• William Faulkner
• Harlem Renaissance

recent publications

African American Atheists and Political Liberation: A Study of the Socio-Cultural Dynamics of Faith . Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2007.

Editor and Annotator of "Kipling's Poems" by E.M. Forster. This is a previously unpublished Forster lecture about Kipling that was delivered to the Weybridge Literary Society in 1909. Journal of Modern Literature 30:3 (Spring 2007): 12-30.

"E.M. Forster's Lecture 'Kipling's Poems': Negotiating the Modernist Shift from ‘the authoritarian stock-in-trade' to an Aristocratic Democracy," Journal of Modern Literature 30:3 (Spring 2007): 1-11.

"D.H. Lawrence's Women in Love : A Tale of the Modernist Psyche, the Continental 'concept,' and the Aesthetic Experience," Journal of Speculative Philosophy 20:4 (2006): 266-286.

"Modernist Anti-Philosophicalism and Virginia Woolf's Critique of Philosophy," Journal of Modern Literature 29:4 (2006): 76-98.

"The Literary Modernist Assault on Philosophy," Philosophy and Literature 30:1 (2006): 50-60.

"The Ideological Function of the God-Concept in Faulkner's Light in August," The Faulkner Journal 21:1-2 (Fall 2005/Spring 2006): 66-90.