Faculty Member, English
Instructor
Arts and Humanities
About
I teach courses in the Arts and Humanities division at Defiance College. Specifically, I teach the college's writing intensive first-year courses, AH 110, Writing the Self in American Culture, and AH 120, Writing the World. My sections of AH 110 focus on violence and masculinity within mythologies of the US frontier. My AH 120 course focuses on trauma, memory and diaspora in the twentieth century.
Previously I taught in the Department of Ethnic Studies at BGSU. In addition to core courses on race and ethnicity in the U.S., I taught classes on race and mass media and Civil Rights Movements.
My research focuses on intersections of race, memory and masculinity in the postwar American South. I am currently revising a book manuscript on the postwar history of Richmond, Virginia's Monument Avenue. I am also starting a project on the performance of Southern identities within the liminal South.
I'm husband to Karin and father to Pearl.
Contact Information
http://forthecommonweal.wordpress.com
