Academic Information

Tenured Associate Professor, English Department, Fitchburg State University

EDUCATION

Ph.D., University of Toronto, Department of English.

M.A., University of Toronto, Department of English.

Honours B.Sc., University of Toronto. Majors: English and Psychology.

TEACHING

Undergraduate Courses

American Literature I

American Literature II

Nineteenth-Century African-American Literature

Twentieth-Century African-American Literature

Reading Poetry

Writing Poetry

Fiction Writing

Creative Writing

Modern and Contemporary Poetry

Senior Seminar: Literature and Performance

Major Authors: Toni Morrison

Romanticism in US Literature

World Novel Since 1914

Stage Movement

Writing I and II

Graduate Courses

The Practice of Poetry: Critical Reading, Creative Writing

Genre, Adaptation, and Hybridity in Twentieth-Century Literature

American Art and Literature

CURRENT PROJECTS

Textual and performative voices in poetry

Representations of music in contemporary fiction

Faculty advisor and editor of Route 2, the literary journal of Fitchburg State University.