Publications
ARTICLES AND REVIEWS
- Co-authored with Aimee Berger. “Covering (Up?) Katrina: Discursive Ambivalence in Coverage of Hurricane Katrina.” CEA Forum 36.1 (Winter 2007): available via http://www2.widener.edu/%7Ecea/361berger.htm.
- “‘The plain round tale of faithful Thady’: Edgeworth’s Castle Rackrent as Slave Narrative.” New Hibernia Review/Iris Eireannach Nua 5.4 (Winter 2001): 57-72.
- “‘When the lessons hurt’: The Third Life of Grange Copeland as Joban Allegory.” Southern Literary Journal 34.1 (Fall 2001): 79-100.
- Review of Grounded Globalism: How the US South Embraces the World by James L. Peacock. The Southern Quarterly: forthcoming. 1500 words.
- “France: Between Seduction and Nostalgia.” On Location: Famous Landscapes in Film. Ed. Claudia Hellmann and Claudine Weber-Hof. Munich: Bucher Press, 2007. 84-91.
- Review of Beyond Hill and Hollow: Original Readings in Appalachian Women’s Studies edited by Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt. Kentucky Philological Review 20 (2006): 69-70.
- Entry on Alice Walker’s Meridian. Writing African American Women: An Encyclopedia of Literature by and about Women of Color. Volume 2. Ed. Elizabeth Ann Beaulieu. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2006. 621-623.
- Entry on Alice Walker’s The Third Life of Grange Copeland. Writing African American Women: An Encyclopedia of Literature by and about Women of Color. Volume 2. Ed. Elizabeth Ann Beaulieu. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2006. 848-849.
- Entry on Alice Hoffman. The Dictionary of Literary Biography 292: Twenty-First-Century American Novelists. Ed. Suzanne Disheroon Green and Lisa Abney. Chicago: Gale Publishing, 2004. 164-172.
- Review of Remapping Southern Literature: Contemporary Southern Writers and the West by Robert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr. College Literature 29.2 (Spring 2002): 169-171.
- Review of The Wind Done Gone by Alice Randall. The Southern Register (Winter 2002): 20.
- Review of Almost Family by Roy Hoffman. The Southern Register (Spring/Summer 2001): 16-17.
- Selected as a member of the Graduate Faculty at the University of Southern Mississippi, 2008
- Selected as a member of the Board of the Robert Penn Warren Circle, 2006
- Selected as a member of the Graduate Faculty at Northern Kentucky University, 2005
- University of Mississippi Graduate School Dissertation Fellowship, Fall 2002
- University of Mississippi Graduate Student Council Research Grant, Spring 2002
- Award for Outstanding Teacher of Sophomore Literature at the University of Mississippi, 2000-2001, 1999-2000, 1998-1999
- University of Mississippi Departmental Teaching Fellowship, 1996-2002