Research Areas: Victorian and Twentieth Century Literature. Also writes poetry and fiction.
Current Research Projects: Editing the journal Slant. Also working on two short stories and research on the Victorian fairy tale writer, Mary de Morgan.
Publications:
"In the Flesh: The Grace of 'Parker's Back'" in Publications of the Mississippi Philological Association (POMPA) 2004: 60-66.
"The Serpent and the Horse: Dante's Scheme for Malebolge" in Publications of the Missouri Philological Association XXVII (2002-03):1-8.
"Matchbox" in Quirk 2004: 21-27.
"On Math" in Full Circle: A Journal of Poetry and Prose 1.1 (Spring/Summer 2003):104-08.
"Undertow" in Zone 3 18.1-2 (Spring/Fall 2003): 72-83. (Special Mention in fourth annual fiction contest)
Research Areas: Religious approaches to Literature, Bibles as Literature, English Renaissance Literature (in particular Donne, Milton), Gay and Lesbian Studies, Global Studies (in particular Asian and African Drama).
Current Research Projects: Work on the John Donne Variorum volume on the Divine Poems, as well as book projects on Donne, Terrence McNally, and the homoerotic David tradition.
Publications:
Reclaiming the Sacred: The Bible in Gay and Lesbian Culture. 2nd ed. Ed. Raymond-Jean Frontain. Haworth Press, 2003.
"'All Men are divine': Religious Mystery and Homosexual Identity in Terrence McNally's Corpus Christi." Reclaiming the Sacred: The Bible in Gay and Lesbian Culture. 2nd ed. Haworth press, 2003. 231-57.
"Donne's Protestant Paradiso: the Johannine Vision of the Second Anniversary." In Donne and the Protestant Reformation, ed. Mary Arshagouni Papazian. Wayne State UP, 2003. 113-42.
"'I don't believe this whole night': Transgressive Festivity in Terrence McNally's The Ritz." Philological Review 2 (Fall 2003): 79-126.
"'ardor with a silent h': Submitting to the Ache of Love in Edmund White's 'Skinned Alive.'" In Postmodern Approaches to the Short Story: Forms and Issues. Ed. Mary H. Rohrberber et al. Greenwood Press, 2003. 144-60.
Research Areas: Robert Louis Stevenson and Thomas Frank.
Current Research Projects: Milan Kundera and Samuel Beckett
Publications:
"Introduction" to Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend. Modern Library, 2002.
"The Third Policeman: Flann O'Brien's Penitent Art." Publications of the Arkansas Philological Association (2001)."Apostasy and Redemption in Endo's Silence." Publications of the Arkansas Philological Assocation (2000)
"Who Are You? Kundera's Identity." Publications of the Arkansas Philological Association (1999).
"'Man thinks; God Laughs': Kundera's 'Nobody Will Laugh.'" Studies in Short Fiction 29 (Winter 1992).
Research Areas: English Renaissance Literature and Drama.
Current Research Project: Contributing items to the Character Prosopography of the forthcoming Compendium of Renaissance Drama on CD-ROM.
Publications:
"Twenty-Five Years of PAPA : A Cumulative Index." PAPA 26.1 (Spring 2000): 63-94.
"'As If a Man Were Author of Himself': The Contingent World of Shakespeare's Coriolanus." Publications of the Missouri Philological Association 26 (2001): 14-23.
Research Areas: English Renaissance Drama and gender studies.
Current Research Projects: Cinematic adaptations of Shakespearean plays, dramatist Caryl Churchill, and gender and language.
Publications:
"Gender and Self-Fashioning" (Studies in the Humanities)
The Marginal 'I': The Autobiographical Self Deconstructed in The Woman Warrior (Biography)
"Iago as Deconstructionist" (Publications of the Arkansas Philological Association), "Odysseus Polytropos: the Hero as Poet" (Publications of the Arkansas Philological Association)
"Teaching Paradise Lost" (College Literature)
Research Areas: Victorian Literature and Fiction
Current Research Projects: Trollope and on Arturo Perez-Reverte
Publications:
"God's Implausible Plot: The Providential Design of The Vicar of Wakefield." Philological Review, spring 2002.
"Dr. Wortle's School, or How the Doctor Bore It." The Philological Review, spring 2001.
"Woman 'in extremis': Trollope's The Belton Estate." Publications of the Missouri Philological Association 25 (2000)
"The Fixed Period: Trollope's 'Modest Proposal.'" Utopian Studies, Spring 2000.
"'How do I love Thee? Hmmmm.?': The Love Story in Henry Esmond ." Publications of the Arkansas Philological Association (1999).
Current Research: Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature, expected to be published in 2005, and a project on the Play of Antichrist in the Chester Mystery Cycle.
Publications:
Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature, published by Facts on File, 2006
"Many a Song and Many a Lecherous Lay": Tradition and Individuality in Chaucer's Lyric Poetry. New York: Garland press, 1992.
"Realism, Nominalism, and the Inconclusive Ending of The Parliament of Fowles." In Geardagum 23 (2002): 1-28.
"'I wolde for thi loue dye': Julian, Romance Discourse, and the Masculine." Julian of Norwich: A Book of Essays. Ed. Sandra J. McEntire. New York: Garland Press, 1998: 183-206.
"Images of the Self and Self Image in Julian of Norwich." Studia Mystica 16 [n.s. 1] (1995): 82-105.
Research Areas: American colonial literature, American Realism and Naturalism, literature of the American Civil War
Current Research Projects: essay on depictions of the American Civil War in the novels of E. L. Doctorow and Howard Bahr.
Publications:
"Heroes Had No Shame in Their Lives': Manhood, Heroics, and Compassion in The Red Badge of Courage and 'A Mystery of Heroism.'" War, Literature & the Arts 18 (2006): 104-13.
"Sequential Art Fights the Civil War: the Classics Illustrated Version of The Red Badge of Courage." Stephen Crane Studies 15.2 (Fall 2006): 2-17.
“’I . . . Do Not Say That I Am Honest’: Stephen Crane's Failure of Artistic Nerve in ‘The Open Boat.’” Philological Review 31.1 (Spring 2005): 1-16.
“Stephen Crane in the Time of Shock and Awe: Teaching The Red Badge of Courage During the Iraq War.” Stephen Crane Studies 13.2 (Fall 2004): 2-9.
"Life During Wartime--And After: Stephen Crane's Spitzbergen Tales." Stephen Crane in War and Peace: A Special Edition of War, Literature, and the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities (1999): 209-22.
Research Areas: American Literature and Culture and American Indian Literature.
Current Research Project: Native American literature and a book on teaching Southwest American Indian Literature.
Publications:
"Teaching Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony." Telling the Stories: Essays on American Indian Literatures and Cultures. Eds. Elizabeth Hoffman Nelson and Malcolm A. Nelson. New York: Peter Lang, 2001.
"The 'Western' Detective Novel: Ross Macdonald and Tony Hillerman." Proceedings of the Southwest American Culture Association. 1994.
"Realism, Reform and the Audience: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Unreadable Wallpaper." Arizona Quarterly 47 (1991).
Research Areas: American Literature and Film.
Current Research Projects: Article on Leslie Marmon Silko 's short story "Yellow Woman" as captivity narrative for presentation at the American Popular Culture Association Meeting in Albuquerque in April. He continues to read and research on the idea of history in the novels of Don Delillo and E.L. Doctorow and the films of Oliver Stone, and most recently on the contributions to the art of American film direction and acting in the movies of Elia Kazan.
Publications:
"Gosford Park: Robert Altman's Jazz Masterpiece," Alpha Chi Recorder, vol. 45, no. 3 (2003): 24-30.
"The Feminine consciousness as Nightmare in the Short Stories of Joyce Carol Oates," in The Postmodern Short Story. Westport, CT.: Greenwood Press, 2003.
"Expelled from Eden: Welles and Coppola Women, the Violence of Family Secrets and the Domestication of the African American Family in Maya Angelou's Down in the Delta," The Family in Film . Madrid: University of Alcal de Henares, 2003.
"Watching Daddy Die: Fatherhood as Symbol and Allegory in Three Eras of American Film: Charles Laughton's The Night of the Hunter, Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, and Same Mendes' American Beauty," The Family in Film. Madrid: University of Alcala de Henares, 2003.