Education

  • Ph.D., M.A., B.A. University of Wisconsin

Background

I've taught American and comparative literature, literary criticism, and film at Davidson since 1988. My research and writing includes the relations among ethics, politics, and art, and I edit Nabokov Studies.

Teaching

  • ENG 391 Literary Criticism
  • ENG 498 Senior Honors Thesis
  • Framing Desire
  • ENG 393 Literature and the Visual Arts
  • The Mystery and Romance of the West
  • Literary Study
  • Seminar Joyce/Nabokov
  • Interpretive Boundaries from Cave Art to the World Wide Web
  • ENG 220 Literary Analysis
  • Habits of Reading
  • The City Novel
  • Faulkner
  • Love, Death, and Art
  • ENG 280 American Literature through the 20th Century
  • ENG 493 Film Art