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Specialization:
20th Century and Contemporary American Novel
Interests:
Media Studies, Ecocriticism, Phenomenology, 'pataphysics
Recent Publications:
“The Concept of Disappearance in Don DeLillo’s Cosmopolis.” Critique. Forthcoming.
“Showdown in the Café 80’s: Back to the Future as Baudrillardian Parable.” In Back to the Future Collection. Sorcha N. Fhlainn, ed. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, Inc, 2009.
“Oedison Rex: The Art of Media Metaphor in Don DeLillo’s Americana.” Modern Language Studies. 37.2, 2008. 50-63.
“Dear Deleuze: YouTube, Virginia Tech, and the Reterritorialization of Media Violence.” In Short Journal. Spring, 2008. http://com.miami.edu/news/index.php/site/entry/dear_deleuze_youtube_virginia_tech_and_the_reterritorialization_of_media_vi/
“The Canon Issue in Ishmael Reed’s Mumbo Jumbo.” With Jerry R. Phillips. Academic Exchange Quarterly. 12.1, 2008.
“Don DeLillo’s Only Intertextual Character: Tracing White Noise’s Murray Siskind Back to DeLillo’s Pseudonymous Novel.” The Explicator. 66.2, 2008. 115-8.
“Postmodern Transcendentalism: Sunsets in Don DeLillo’s White Noise.” CEAMAGazine. 18, 2007. 28-37.
“Chip Kidd” and “The Cheese Monkeys.” Encyclopedia of Contemporary Fiction. Facts on File, Inc. 2009.
“Sartre’s Nausea” and “McCarthy’s The Road.” The Dictionary of Literary Characters. Facts on File, Inc. 2009.
“Apocalyptic Nostalgia in the Prologue of Don DeLillo’s Underworld.” Forum. 5.1, 2007. http://forum.llc.ed.ac.uk/issue5/laist.html
“Profiles in Ontological Rebelliousness: The Presence of Moby-Dick References in Heathers.” Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies 9.1, 2007.
“Implications of The Incredible Shrinking Man Allusion in Don DeLillo’s Americana.” Notes on Contemporary Literature 37.5, 2007.
Dissertation:
American Environments: Technology and Subjectivity in Don DeLillo
Major Advisor:
Scott Bradfield |
