CLASSES TAUGHT

Course Num Course Title ENGL-101 Writing and Inquiry I ENGL-102 Writing and Inquiry II ENGL-200 Intro to Literary Studies ENGL-202 Readings in American Lit ENGL-204 Readings in African-Amer Lit ENGL-214 Literature and Experience ENGL-241 Readings in Genre (Poetry) ENGL-275 Business Communications ENGL-322 Realism and Naturalism ENGL-401 Amer Lit Environ Politics ENGL-401 Work and Labor in Amer. Lit ENGL-406 Studies in Major Authors ENGL-490 Internship ENGL-499 Senior Seminar HUMA-330 American Realism HUMA-330 Faulkner's Mississippi HUMA-330 The Post-Apocalyptic Narrative HUMA-390 Atlantic Slave Trade

ARTICLES - REFEREED

• Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry in Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. (2010)
• John Steinbeck and 'the stalking horror' of Communism in Steinbeck Review. (2009)
• 'Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, United States National Literature, and the Canonical Erasure of Material Nature' in American Transcendental Quarterly. (2006)
• 'Why Isn't He So Green?: John Steinbeck's Monstrous Ecology' in Journal of American Culture. (2005)

PRESENTATIONS

• 'The Complex Sentimentality of 'Hiawatha'. American Literature Association. San Francisco, California. (2010)
• 'New Directions in Longfellow Studies'. 19th Annual Conference of the American Literature Association. San Francisco, California. (May, 2008)
• 'What a Black Woman Can and Cannot Say: Confronting the Uncomfortable Ending of Their Eyes Were Watching God.'. Piedmont Technical College's Black History Month Celebration. Greenwood, South Carolina. (February, 2008)
• 'Reclaiming Blackspace: Zora Neale Hurston, the Power of Harlem, and the Promise of Florida.' Association for the Study of Literature and Environment. Association for the Study of Literature and Environment. Spartanburg, South Carolina. (June, 2007)
• 'Zora Neale Hurston, the Power of Harlem, and the Promise of Florida.'. Lander University College of Arts and Humanities Distinguished Speaker Series. Greenwood, South Carolina. (2007)
• 'Emerson and the Abstraction of Natural Space'. Negotiating 19th Century Spaces. Columbia, South Carolina. (March, 2005)
• 'Monstrous Ecology: John Steinbeck, Ecology, and American Cultural Politics.'. Midwest Modern Language Association. St. Louis, Missouri. (November, 2004)
• 'The Preservative Impulse in Steinbeck's Cannery Row'. Western American Literature. Tuscon, Arizona. (October, 2002)

CREATIVE WORKS & ACTIVITIES

• The Green Prof (Composition). , South Carolina, Greenville 2012.