Education
- Ph.D. in English from University of Notre Dame (1996)
Research Interests
British and Irish Literature since 1885, War and Literature, Sexuality Theory, Science Fiction
Publications
Books
- Oscar Wilde, Wilfred Owen, and Male Desire: Begotten, Not Made. Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Articles/Essays
- “Fear of a Stupid Planet: Sexuality, SF, and Kornbluth’s ‘The Marching Morons.’” Extrapolation 55 (2014): 51-74.
- “See-Thru Desire and the Dream of Gay Marriage: Joe Orton’s Entertaining Mr. Sloane on Stage and Screen.” Modern British Drama on Screen. Ed. R. Barton Palmer and William Robert Bray. Cambridge University Press, 2013. 145-68.
- “Sexual Gnosticism: The Procreative Code of ‘The Portrait of Mr. W. H.’” Wilde Discoveries: Traditions, Histories, Archives. Ed. Joseph Bristow. University of Toronto Press, 2013. 169-89.
- “Kill the Bugger: Ender’s Game and the Question of Heteronormativity.” Science Fiction Studies 36.3 (2009): 490-507.
- "Just Less than Total War: Simulating World War II as Ludic Nostalgia." Playing the Past: History and Nostalgia in Video Games. Ed. Zach Whalen and Laurie N. Taylor. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2008. 183-200.
- “Interpreting the War.” The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the First World War. Ed. Vincent Sherry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 261-79.
- “Combat Gnosticism: The Ideology of First World War Poetry Criticism.” NLH: New Literary History 30.1 (1999): 203-16.
- “‘For You May Touch Them Not’: Misogyny, Homosexuality, and the Ethics of Passivity in First World War Poetry.” ELH: English Literary History 64.3 (1997): 823-42.
- “Enforced Aphasia: Language, Violence and Silence in Christopher Logue’s Homeric Poetry.” LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory 7.4 (1997): 283-300.
- “Coming Home: Difference and Reconciliation in Narratives of Return to ‘the World.’” The United States and Viet Nam from War to Peace. Ed. Robert M. Slabey. McFarland and Company, 1996: 198-207.
Courses
| Course # | Course | Title | Mode | Days/Times | Syllabus | |
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| 82957 | CRW3120 | Fiction Writing Workshop Ⅰ | Web-Based (W) | 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM | Unavailable | |
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In this course, students will gain a deeper understanding of contemporary fiction through analyzing short stories and participating in workshop. This course will place equal emphasis on generative writing and close reading. In the first weeks of the semester, we will work on “scaffolding” exercises, taking time to review and bolster our knowledge of the basic components of fiction. The bulk of the course will be workshop, in which students will read and constructively critique each other’s stories, and discussions of student presentations based on assigned stories. The semester will culminate in a final portfolio with a revision statement. |
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| 93974 | LIT3313 | Science Fiction | Web-Based (W) | 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM | Unavailable | |
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| 20234 | LIT3932 | Topics in Popular Fiction | In Person (P) | Tu,Th 1:30 PM - 2:45 PM | Unavailable | |
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