I study nineteenth century American literature and its relationship to labor in American culture.  I have written on Midwestern literature in MidAmerica and the forthcoming Rediscovering the American Midwest volume Pieces of the Heartland: Representing Early Twentieth-Century Midwestern Places. I have also written on Bruce Springsteen and folk music in Bruce Springsteen and Popular Music: Rhetoric, Memorial, and Contemporary Culture. I have taught courses such as: “Composition & Comedy,” “The Rhetoric of Non-Violence,” “Epistemology in Detective Fiction and Film Noir,” “The Power of ‘Truthiness’: Thinking and Writing Empirically in a Post-Fact World,” and “We Understand, Then, Do We Not: Narrative and Empathy in Fictional Forms.” I work as an Assistant Professor of English at Perimeter College, Georgia State University in Alpharetta, Georgia.

Digital versions of my CV and Teaching Philosophy are available. Learn more about my work at Phillips State Prison with Common Good Atlanta here or see my current course offerings here. 

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