Faculty

• Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania
• M.A. English Literary Study, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
• B.A. English, Bryan College

• "Traumatized Masculinity: Men and Boys in the Works of Tobias Wolff." Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 2018. Proquest.
• “’Not Gone or Vanished Either’: Memory and Imagination in the Novels of William Faulkner.” The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, 2010. Proquest.

Poems

• “Funeral Fan, a Lament” The Windhover, August 2018
• “Shadowboxing Late at Night” Rattle Poetry, summer 2018
• “Through the Kitchen Window” Red Flag Poetry, August 2018
• “Sleepwalking” Tipton Poetry Review, fall 2017
• “kings and toys” Sharkpack Poetry, December 2014
• “On the Weather Channel” Rosebud, forthcoming
• Five Poems pamplemouse, forthcoming 

• Tennessee Philological Association
• Sigma Tau Delta English Honors Society

• The Golden Acorn: Departmental Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2012.
• The William Jennings Bryan Philological Award for Excellence in the English Major, 2005.

Topics of Expertise

• 20th Century American Fiction
• Contemporary Poetry
• Masculinity Theory
• Trauma Theory